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Word: petticoats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been written on everything from the walls of Egyptian tombs to the back of a bridge score card. A Canadian farmer, pinned fatally under a tractor, scratched his last testament on its fender (which now duly reposes among the local archives); a dying California oldster scrawled his on the petticoat of an obliging nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dying Art | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...will replace them next season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks. Gene Barry, who plays the flush cop, learned how to shoot when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: From the Same Tube | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...descended from a hereditary knightly caste formed between the 11th and 14th centuries, Britain's noblemen are two-a-penny come-latelies. Throughout the nation's history, Kings and, later, Prime Ministers have freely handed out titles to deserving-and undeserving-comers. George I even made "petticoat peeresses" of his mistresses in order, as one peerage pundit noted, "to reward their merits in their respective departments and encourage the surrender of prudery in younger and handsomer subjects." In a preface to the new edition, Sir Anthony Wagner, who as Garter King of Arms is Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Catalogue of Coronets, Some Cut-Rate | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...into her cleavage for Cleopatra -one of the highest fees ever paid for a professional woman. Marlon Brando is getting more than $1,000,000 for Mutiny on the Bounty. And Cary Grant, who could probably buy Scotland if he cared to, took 75% of the profits of Operation Petticoat. Profits to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Monroe Doctrine | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, whose song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance flesh out her personable part as everybody's dream tart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Best Reading | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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