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1950s; 1960s; 1970s; ... 2000s; Pages in category "1950s slang" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Text is available under the Creative ...
— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic (2 November 1950), to his nurse "Tell Daisy that I love her." [257] — Jesse L. Brown, United States Naval Aviator (4 December 1950), mentioning his wife while trapped and dying in cockpit after being shot down during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
Morgan, Ted (1983) Literary Outlaw The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. ISBN 0-380-70882-5, first printing, trade paperback edition Avon, NY, NY; Phillips, Lisa. Beat Culture and the New America 1950–1965 was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art in accordance with an exhibition in 1995/1996. ISBN 0-87427-098-7 softcover.
Slang words by decade they were widely used ... 1950s slang (4 P) 1960s slang (3 P) 1970s ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions". [ 1 ]
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” — Jim Bishop “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing ...
What we learned by rereading Joan Didion's ruthlessly honest "Goodbye to All That," the quintessential essay about leaving New York.