Search Details

Word: rubirosas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty white dove (Tebaldi). Casarosa the old sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young as he thinks he is.'' In a mad finale, the "God of the Press" arrived in a thunderclap to terrify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back to Nature | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa and his fifth wife, sometime Cine-minx Odile Rodin. 21, whooped it up at a Manhattan party, a thief invaded their Plaza Hotel suite, made off with jewelry and mink worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a Scoop | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...advice of an old customer, sporty Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, Manhattan's flossy Dunhill Tailored Clothes, Inc. phoned Rubi's high-salaried ($600,000 a year) nightclubbing buddy, Lieut. General Rafael Trujillo Jr., who agreed that his wardrobe needed a little touching up, ordered himself: 14 single-breasted herringbone and plaid suits ($285 each); four Saxony wool sports coats ($196 each); 10 sports shirts ($20 to $30 apiece); 24 dress shirts ($33 each); 50 neckties ($7.50 each); four pairs of English worsted flannel slacks ($88 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...West Palm Beach, Fla., aging (49) Glamour Boy Porfirio Rubirosa, a sometime auto racer, was caught by police with his Ferrari down, charged with speeding, making a wrong turn and driving with an ear-ruffling muffler, haled to headquarters, where he paid a $25 fine. Huffed Rubi: "I was only trying to reach the bank in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next