Word: bibelot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sting out of things that hurt") neatly defines the dividing line between generations. The young laugh at the way things seem; the middle-aged laugh at the way things are. What are her pleasures apart from husband, children, work and friends? "I'm an insane furniture and bibelot buyer. I love the ocean-it's one of the last free places on earth." Betty Bacall has also learned the ultimate wisdom of the middle years, to live in the here and now: "There are things in life that are pretty rotten. The part that's good...
...well-bred lines in the Social Register, and enough money to buy Hollywood-her mother is Marjorie Post May of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, and her husband. Stanley Rumbough, gets a big squeeze from the Colgate toothpaste tube. To top it off, an extra little bibelot has now come Deenie's way. "As a token of affection," both her father-in-law and mother-in-law, whose deaths came four months apart, left her bequests...
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