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Word: toothbrush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of great unrest and movement all across the land, and I was of it and in it and on it and with it. My sonnet was half finished; my soul was a traffic light turning from red to green. It was the time, and I packed a toothbrush and a comb and a cold can of Schaefer beer, and I went to my mother's side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE HIGHWAY | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

This is where the tax collector comes in. Cedric is a toothbrush-mustached city mouse with "office-pale hands," as limp as "tired celery." But in Ma and Pop's peasant-shrewd eyes, he is a potential husband, if only they can take his mind off his tax forms and put it on Mariette's still flawless figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Funhouse | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...suits, long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Description: He is pockmarked, toothbrush-mustached, wealthy, aristocratic, weak-willed, easily swayed. She is small, slight, bright-eyed, wealthy, aristocratic, intellectual, intense but unstable. Both are products of the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPATRIATES: The Travelers | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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