Word: fiftyish
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Divorced. John Knudsen ("Jack") Northrop, 53, aircraft builder (the Black Widow, the Fly ing-Wing): by Inez Harmer Northrop, fiftyish; after 31 years of marriage, three children; in Pasadena, Calif...
...London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
Television in the Bathroom. For some time Thora suffered in silence. But recently fiftyish Understudy Erica O'Foyle had to go on for her. Like many another understudy in her big moment, Erica was nervous, but she did fine for two acts. Then she put on the bewitched jacket and started the third. She went pale, choked and forgot her lines. "My throat went suddenly dry," she explained weakly after the curtain finally came down. "I felt a great hand clutching me from behind. It was horrible." She indignantly denied any suggestion that the trouble might have stemmed from...
Opinion on students manners seemed to be somewhat mixed. The majority of the girls agreed that most of the freshmen were well versed in their manners. One irate fiftyish maiden bitterly attacked the '52s, claiming that "they're all messy slobs, and I'd hate to be their mothers...
...philanthropic work in Los Angeles, where she was once a movie star, Marion Davies, fiftyish, was cited on the radio by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna as "the woman of the day." Mrs. Roosevelt was in line for a distinction of her own: granddaughter Sistie Boettiger Seagraves would present her in midsummer with her first great-grandchild. In an eventful week, the former First Lady did some reminiscing about how much her late husband had enjoyed movies. But, she recalled, he fell asleep during Gone With the Wind and was quite angry on waking up to find that...