Search Details

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


Usage:

...What, you have a Lear jet instead of a sleigh?" I tried to humor...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: He Looked a Little Like Allen Ginsberg | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

With that information out in the open, pretenders to the sleigh both in Boston and New York discussed their lives behind the beard more freely...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Life Behind the Beard | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...worked for J.M. for seven years. But he says he has been a Santa ever since, being pudgy "he was volunteered for a company Christmas party 20 years ago. Now he also suits up during the week at local shopping centers. I would love to say I take a sleigh all over Boston, but in reality I usually use public transportation," he explains...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Life Behind the Beard | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...pulled up to Washington's National Press Club not in a sleigh, but in a dark blue Dodge. Dressed in his customary rumpled civics, Presidential Assistant Lyn Nofziger, 57, bore little resemblance to St. Nick. Fortunately the illusion improved slightly after Nofziger sausaged himself into the red-and-white threads of Santa Claus. He inherited the Santa job when he agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a benefit for Washington's Children's Hospital National Medical Center. "It was really tough sledding," said Nofziger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 21, 1981 | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...opposed in principle to the frivolity of Christmas, Moore decided to write a poem to please his children. Inspired by his surroundings on a snowy Christmas Eve in Manhattan, Moore composed 56 lines on his way home from a market trip to buy a Christmas turkey. Moore's own sleigh and jingling bells suggested Santa's flying conveyance, while an old farmer friend, Jan Duyckinck, was reincarnated as the good saint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grah Bag of Christmas Customs | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next