Search Details

Word: pettinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The Mad Hour. A girl called Cuddles (Sally O'Neil), some rich and roistering men, flasks full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

BAD GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Harlem | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

"The best things in life are free", were the startling words which dropped from the divine lady's, shall be say tempress' lips at exactly the moment we are now writing about, and the Vagabond sat up with amazing rapidity, almost, it might be said, with alacrity. Did she mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

But after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Stomach Hake | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | Next