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  • Not by fire-breathing communist fanatics and demagogues of the Guevara-Mao type, but by true-blue conservative dumbos sprung from blue-rinsed matrons like Dubya Bush ......

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Not by fire-breathing communist fanatics and demagogues of the Guevara-Mao type, but by true-blue conservative dumbos sprung from blue-rinsed matrons like Dubya Bush ......

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Snow — warm but steely, blue-rinsed, with a weakness for martinis (a weakness that in the end proved tragic) — orchestrated this and the other transformations that made “the Bazaar” (as she called it) under her tenure, from 1933 through 1957, into what is widely considered the finest and most innovative fashion magazine in history.

    Chairs, Rag Mags, Indian Wars 2006

  • Snow — warm but steely, blue-rinsed, with a weakness for martinis (a weakness that in the end proved tragic) — orchestrated this and the other transformations that made “the Bazaar” (as she called it) under her tenure, from 1933 through 1957, into what is widely considered the finest and most innovative fashion magazine in history.

    Chairs, Rag Mags, Indian Wars 2006

  • "They made antique collectibles a national pastime rather than for blue-rinsed old ladies," says Dan Farrell, a consulting producer to Antiques Roadshow, the televised appraisal-fest that represents in some ways the apotheosis of Ralph Kovel's vision.

    He and His Wife Wrote the Pricing Bible 2008

  • A charge has been made against Cameron that he is just a blue-rinsed Blair.

    Cameron`s Camelot Newmania 2006

  • She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • It seemed to be a mixture of blue-rinsed moral disapproval and parochial couthiness, mixed with a paranoid, negative preoccupation

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Who present that famous day can ever forget those women with blue-rinsed hair and leathery faces and large costume jewelry and pastel-tinted dresses with tasteful matching accessories as they screamed 'Lover!' at Nelson?

    The Best Years of Our Lives Vidal, Gore 1983

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