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...language of Chaucer and Churchill is better for now including k-veniences, which are hangers, coinveniences, which hold money for parking meters, kon-veen-yunt tire chains, foodtainers and keytainers, roylies, which are doilies, plast-t-cap thumbtacks, tasteas, teariffic teabags, kar-pokits, diced cream, expaditers (pads of paper), slipper-grippers, chap sticks, paper mates, superfection strawberries, dangeratings, schweppervescence . . . Ladies can do lots in culottes, and summarize in summer dresses, size 16-40. After a long day in the office, their husbands come home and slip on their leisuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Let's Kick This Around | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Rand, 52, tireless fan-dancer; and Fred Lalla, 35, former Los Angeles plaster contractor; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. One hour after the ceremony, she discarded her wedding dress and stood coyly nude on the stage of Las Vegas' Silver Slipper Saloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Pedal Pusher. In Detroit, Edwin Arnold got a court order restraining his wife Bessie Mae after he testified that she had beaten him with her slipper, made him scrub floors, forced him to take off his shoes whenever he entered the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...fiction scarcely supported by the songs attributed to him-who is staying at the hotel. Doris is soon pleasantly crooning "I'm in love" to a silver-lame willow while mechanical stars dot the screen like light bulbs shining through an I.B.M. card; and instead of a slipper, her Prince Charming offers her a Broadway part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

After his election, Pius XII received the first "obedience" of the College of Cardinals, each kissing his red leather slipper. During the ceremony, he was heard to murmur: "Miserere mei, Deus [Pity me, Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Urbi et Orbi | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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