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Word: eastmond (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still important to the New Guard, for whom a listing is almost the only way left to know one is better than one's neighbors. Those who are knocking at the Register's door no longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting one's listing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Open End | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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