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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald's own tag line to The Great Gatsby. Looking at the corpse, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Biography in Sound | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...from scorning the bitch goddess, (the five writers) grew up on the success myth and in their maturity accepted it as the key to the meaning of American life. The society which was portrayed in their society was not one which was split into two warring camps, or what you will, but a society which, as William James has said, exclusively worshipped a common deity, which was locked in the struggle to get ahead, not separated between opposing ideals...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: The Dream of Success | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...Astor's unparliamentary affront, Tallulah snorted: "She probably disapproves of me as much as I do of her, the bitchy old hypocrite!" Urged to tone down her statement, she put on a tragic air and cooed an amendment: "Say that I called her a bitch, dahling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

When Willis Wayde was a young man, his father had a serious talk with him. "Willis," said the old man, "you keep on trying to be something you aren't, and you'll end up a son of a bitch . . . A lot of people do before they know it, son." Willis Wayde does, before he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Quick & Dead. After the wounded and dead were brought into Jasper, the county seat (pop. 5,000, including eight millionaires), a curious crowd gathered in front of the hospital. Leola Garlington, sister of the wounded brothers, burst through the mob, screaming at Sheriff Martel Mixon: "You son of a bitch. It's all your fault! If you'd been doing your job, this would never have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Deerslayers | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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