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...years, as Princess Elizabeth, she never had a bathroom of her own. When a bath was installed for her, the bath was so pokey that she had to climb into it from the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Bit Near the Bone | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey, Villain Howard and his spectacular doxy Anita would doubtless have been brought to justice several reels sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...chest heaving. Chewing each word as if it were scenery, he pounded the table and began emoting eight to the bar: "He is saying society has to be protected. This is ridiculous. I am society." Society's sentence: two years' probation, $250 fine, ten days in the pokey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion and his wife as a hobby? For the answers to these and many other related questions, tune in to Lucy Crown, a bit of fictional hokey-pokey in 21 chapters by Irwin Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paper Doll | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...parachute factory during World War II. She has every man of the military guard wrapped up-every one except Corporal Joe (Harry Belafonte), who loves Cindy Lou (Olga James). But one day Carmen gets in a hair-tearing fight with another working girl, and off to the pokey she goes with Corporal Joe. On the way she lures the corporal beyond the call of duty, and escapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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