Search Details

Word: blende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...world's top-earning, high-fashion model, Manhattan's svelte Dovima (a blend of her given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Handy colony, is James (From Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Housemother Knows Best | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Tacho's sons can somehow reproduce his rare blend of ruthlessness and charm, Nicaragua may see another era of tomblike peace. If not, the country is probably in for a tumultuous power scramble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Champ is Dead | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

After 82 Years, Ferment. Sold to a group of bankers who lacked the Welch blend of virtue and hard-sell, the company made little headway after Dr. Charles' death in 1926. In mid-Depression, the ailing grape-juice industry was rescued by a Welch competitor, Jacob M. Kaplan, a self-made molasses mogul who had bought control of Hearn's department store in New York. After buying a small upstate New York winery in 1933, to supply Hearn's liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Almost Like Wine | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Pardners (Paramount) is an ironic title for this tame latest in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis series, for the comedy partners recently announced that they were splitting up-and a good thing, too. A rambunctious blend of gags and nags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

First | Previous | 532 | 533 | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | Next | Last