Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he could make himself invisible, and claimed to have walked around a town once in a red robe and golden crown, unnoticed by anyone. In a treatise on magic he blandly remarked that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best." In 1934 he sued Authoress Nina Hamnett for libel, claiming that he had been represented in her book as a practitioner of black magic; he said his magic was white...
Corinne Griffith, melting beauty ("The Orchid of the Screen") of silent movies, was ready for a new career as an authoress this week. Her literary work: a ten-year history of the Washington Redskins football team (owner: husband George Preston Marshall...
House provisions for the feminine trade rank high, with Adams' "clean, orderly, pretty" ladies room receiving a special nod of approval. "Though this won't appear in my book," the fetching authoress added, "you might say that Radcliffe would appreciate more facilities around Harvard...
...Boston, Forever Amber went on trial for obscenity under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...