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Word: bitche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year history the New York Social Register has been known to list -through accident or indulgence-murderers, convicts, and a Pekinese bitch. But Broadway and Hollywood are usually considered beyond the pale. The 1947 edition, out last week, showed that the secret board of editors* was more vigilant than ever. In stayed 24 Roosevelts, 20 Pells, 8 Vanderbilts, 4 Astors, 3 Stuyvesants, 7 de Peysters, 14 Havemeyers. Out went: ¶Hyatt Von Dehn, longtime Registerite. He married Singer Ginny Simms in 1945, was listed with her in the 1946 edition. Ginny was found wanting. ¶Mrs. Faith Corrigan Fair McNulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Watered Cream | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case on the grounds of intemperate language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goliath & Davids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Pitfalls and pratfalls were everywhere. In Detroit last week, a woman walked into a butcher shop without having got an introduction from an old customer. A butcher eyed her, scribbled a note to the boss. It read: "Who is she?" The answer: "I don't know. Starve the bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Playing the Angles | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All the News | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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