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Word: fifth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From now on, explained a Palace spokesman, the Princesses will "live the lives of two young girls." Elizabeth, who now has her own apartment at the Palace, likes helping Papa and Mama entertain. At Palace parties, the King loves to lead a conga line. Every fifth dance he dutifully foxtrots or waltzes with the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Dominant Strain | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...Cornelius Vanderbilt's ballroom, dining room and one of her bathrooms, from her abandoned brownstone mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, were bought by Paramount Pictures as props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Elevations | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...when the circus comes to Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant (on the occasion of Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Average Man | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Soda Jerk America | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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