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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior, and ironically turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch and a fake," to find that she not only believed in God but loved Him-even more than she loved her lover. "I believe there's a God-I believe the whole bag of tricks; there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...buried questions, like mines. And the terms of his story are so studiedly, elaborately mundane that at first the unwary reader is hardly aware of the muffled explosions of the answers. (One of his buried questions : Must a woman who becomes a saint necessarily think of herself as "a bitch and a fake?" Greene's answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanctuary Revisited | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...open affair with a married man-following Ingrid Bergman's escapade with Roberto Rossellini and Rita Hayworth's fling with Aly Khan-has inevitably reawakened in some quarters the ancient question about Hollywood morals. It has brought her some censure (one letter writer habitually addresses her as "Bitch-Jezebel-Gardner"). Yet it actually seems to be helping, rather than hurting, her earning power. Reports Columnist Sidney Skolsky solemnly: "Ava worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking box-office records across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...rude refusals or no answer at all. Socialite neighbors who asked to come and bring their weekend guests got the blunt advice: "Take your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fighter from Philadelphia | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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