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Cinderella probably said that to the press--right after trying on the glass slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOST MAN'S BURDEN | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...overwrought when he goes hunting if his mother has not commanded him to find a suitable bride? In this version she just hands her boy a bow and arrow and trips off, doubtless to a good gossip with her courtiers. Or why make such a fuss about a glass slipper when Cinderella's prince walks into her house and recognizes her without fitting the slipper on her foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: THE KIROV LOSES FOCUS | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

Harvard, which finished second in the Eastern Championships to Slipper Rock, was also led this year by Pyka and the other co-captain, Christine McElroy...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Polowomen Make Nationals | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...there was my dad, a hardened, seasoned veteran of Red Sox chokes. He saw the dream slowly disappear in '75 as Joe Morgan's bloop single found the outfield grass. And he watched Bob Gibson and the Cardinals remove the glass slipper from the '67 Cinderella squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Serious Business | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

...rumor from the town's smooth hypocrites. As the radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could be underestimating sweet May; the child has a will and means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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