Word: sightseers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down! Sex is a great thing-so long as it is not misused." Then, after he sipped tea with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, Sightseer Graham was at last pinned down by an insistent reporter just as he was boarding a plane for Moscow. What "embarrassed" the Grahams: "We saw two couples in the midst of the sex act in daylight...
Britain's enterprising Duke of Bedford, who last year turned over the greensward of his ancestral mansion to a pack of sun worshipers for an international nudists' frolic, announced that this year Woburn Abbey will angle for the sightseer trade (admission: 35? a head) without resorting to any sideshows besides a rally for helicopters and other aircraft, a horse show, a circus. "Nudism is played out," said His Grace summarily. "It was a good gimmick while it lasted...
...noon, Simons was up to about 102,000 ft. (exact height is still being checked) and looked upon a view no man had seen before. The horizon was 400 miles away. Overhead the sky was dark. The earth was a lifeless blob delicately dissected by rivers and lakes. Reported Sightseer Simons: "It was as though all the color had been washed...
...Manhattan sightseer, New Hampshire's earthy Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, whose sex-gorged Peyton Place (TIME, Sept. 24) has stood No. 1 on the nation's bestseller lists for almost two months, counterattacked censors and all who would ban her barnyard portrayal of a rampageous U.S. hamlet. Cried plumpish Authoress Metalious, mother of three: "I know about small towns. A rock in a field may look firm, but kick it over and you'll find all kinds of things crawling underneath. Too much sex? How can you write a novel about normal men and women, let alone...
...table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets of how to milk cows!" Boring in with pencil poised, New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson heard a New York neurologist ask Bulganin if it was true that psychiatrists are on call around...