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Word: slippers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper of a procuress." It was hardly an appropriate tone to take with one's valet, but Carteron was no ordinary valet; he was a member of the orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wicked Mister Six | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...ball on the outside corner. His table partner is an aging, embittered divorcee (Vivien Leigh), who reacts with exquisite distaste to a recital of his gastric misadventures in Mexico. Many scenes later, in a fit of sexual combustion, she beats Marvin nearly insensible with the heel of her gilded slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rough Crossing | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Michigan beat the Tigers 93-76 last night in Portland, Ore., ending the beautiful fairy tale that millions of credulous adults all over the country had wanted badly to believe in. The dragon wasn't slain, the glass slipper didn't fit, and the children went to bed crying...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Foul Trouble, Michigan Rebounds Spill Tigers out of NCAAs, 93-76 | 3/20/1965 | See Source »

...bugs out of a secret weapon. The team was from the U.S., and its secret was a pair of $70,000 sleds, designed and built by General Motors. For years, the best competition bobs have come from an Italian blacksmith named Evaldo D'Andrea, who produces 20 handcrafted, slipper-shaped Podar sleds a year, at prices ranging from $1,300 (for a two-man "boblet") to $1,575 (for a four-man model). Two years ago, a U.S. Air Force general with a yen for bobsledding suggested to some G.M. executives that it was time to end the Podar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: Rule Britannia--for Now | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...with the curare -dipped stiletto had been put to pasture and was perhaps pursuing some hobby, like milking rattlesnakes. It would appear instead that he merely paused to sharpen his fangs. While it is difficult to work up much sympathy for the victim, who is probably tapping his glass slipper in protest, any poor bastard blitzed with such deft and delicate razor strokes is deserving of pity. Wait until he tries to turn the other cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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