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Word: damita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol Flynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rambling Rex | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...Michigan, Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney has been conducting a coy, behind-the-scenes campaign to win the Republican senatorial nomination for his personable, pretty wife Lenore, a onetime Hollywood starlet, who worked as Lili Damita's stand-in and had a bit part in a Greta Garbo film. His efforts proved insufficient last week to capture the necessary 75% of the delegates at a party caucus. But Mrs. Romney, 60, who had earlier insisted that she would run only if her party drafted her, declared as a candidate anyway. Though she is the kind of candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Candidates by Any Name | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

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