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Word: ava (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After due thought, the National Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions In Motion | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Artists' Group of America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Work & Play | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...Spain, working on a movie called Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Cinemactress Ava (The Great Sinner) Gardner, who once told newsmen that she simply hated cheesecake, had a change of heart, obligingly posed in the surf for photographers and friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Crooner Frank Sinatra, separated from his wife, flew to Spain, and presented Cinemactress Ava Gardner with a $10,000 emerald necklace. Meanwhile, one Mario Cabre, 34, a part-time actor, verse-writer and bullfighter who is playing in a picture with Ava, assured reporters that he loved Ava and she loved him, too. He even tossed off some verses to her. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Mario also told reporters: "After Sinatra's visit is over and Ava and I are alone again, I think you will find that our love has survived . . ." Then he added: "Of course, it depends on so many things . . ." Sinatra said of Ava: "A terrific girl." Ava said of Frankie: "A wonderful guy," but added demurely: "It's too soon to talk about marriage-Frank hasn't even got a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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