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Word: slippers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They're Playing Our Song | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "lean and slipper'd pantaloon," "second childishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Glass Slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent assault and battery" while he and Georgia were fellow hospital patients, with a connecting bathroom, last December. After bursting into her room in a smock so scanty that "he was exposed in both directions," testified Georgia, Sugar Daddy Spreckels wrestled with her lustily and then, outnumbered by three nurses, leaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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