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Word: dimitrescu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Magda Dimitrescu was also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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