Search Details

Word: puce (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* By day he is Foppish Playboy Bruce Wayne, but at night he dons his puce long johns and his black bat hat and makes war on the diabolical denizens of the dark underworld. Adam West plays Bruce/Batman, and Burt Ward is Dick Grayson (alias Robin the Boy Wonder) in this revival of the 1940s comic strip. Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 14, 1966 | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...opinions are as trim and sharp as she is. Her two-word review of Irving Shulman's biography of Jean Harlow was: "Shocking puce." Her general code is: "You should be vicious only if you have something to be vicious about." And-regardless of whether it is called gossip or opinion-she sees no reason not to be vicious about actors if she wants to be. "I don't think actors have any right to private lives," she says. "If they want to have privacy, they shouldn't be actors. I don't like cowards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Being Catty to Columnists | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...Puce stamps have no glue, no books to stick them in, and a four-color catalogue of gifts you can't have. They give impact to a new trend-nothing for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

America's trading-stamp dilemma with Puce Genuine Non-Trading Stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Puce Stamps are guaranteed absolutely worthless. The American housewife is thereby relieved of the chores of coupon licking and Stamp collecting. She is free to devote her time to other housewifery tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next