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Word: fiancee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Wedding. In Lagonegro, Italy, the father, two brothers, two uncles and an aunt of Giuseppina Corso were sentenced to jail terms ranging up to a year for kidnaping Giuseppina's fiance -who had repeatedly put off the wedding date -and locking him in a room with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Ringworm. In Toronto, Mildred Put-nik, 28, testified that when she returned her engagement ring to ex-Fiance James Kuca three days after he gave it to her, he made her pay $100 for depreciation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Hookless Future. "I was born in the midst of vast cotton plantations," Mary's story begins, and things "were about as they had been during the days of slavery." Ashton Hall-the Kimbrough place close to the Jefferson Davis house on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi-featured all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

This curious and amusing book is billed as a novel, but might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nonconformist | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Woman of Rome | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

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