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Word: distaff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The Distaff Side, with Celia Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Harvard upper-classmen are singing a new version of Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. They want more time to entertain their dates in dormitories on weekends. At present the distaff side must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Wives & a Spinster | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Three weeks ago, at the winter get-together of the Gridiron Widows, the distaff side of the Gridiron Club, "Evie" cast an appraising eye over "Bootsie's" figure. Sweetly, she remarked that Bootsie, who gave birth to a son six months before, looked quite "robust." In her next column, Evie elaborated on her suspicions: "The stork, so 'they' say, is once more hovering some distance over the William Randolph Hearst Jrs.' . . . house, right on the heels of William Randolph Hearst III's first encounter with this bitter old world . . ." Washington dowagers and debutantes, who find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: So They Say | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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