Word: fiftyish
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...inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion that they have been behind the sets, the bushes and deep into some of Hollywood's better bed-&-bathrooms. This eminence Columnist Hopper shares (reluctantly) with her rival in revelation, Hearstian Columnist Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons, fat, fiftyish, and fatuous, whose syndicated column reaches some 30,000,000 readers...
Though the American Community School had to share in all of France's shortages, its first postwar year had not gone badly. Textbooks, chalk and lamp bulbs were hard to get, the electric current was cut off frequently. But fiftyish Headmaster Paul de Rosay was an old hand at the game. He had first gone to France in World War I with a Harvard ambulance unit. In 1923 he opened the first American day school in Paris for the children of U.S. businessmen and diplomats abroad...
...fiftyish, big, blonde and blowy. In California, where she came from, she told her friends she had invented a portable headrest called the "Sunap." It came in two models-blue canvas for men, imitation white leather for women. Another of Mom's gadgets was a "nonslip grater" which could be locked to the side of a chopping bowl. It was guaranteed not to shred fingers along with the carrots. Mom had a hard time marketing the grater. "Everyone liked it, dearie," she explained, "but shortage of tin-you know...
...modern bobby-soxers, her name means next to nothing. But it is sweetly nostalgic news to folks in their forties that a trim, silver-haired, fiftyish, blues singer next week begins a new radio show-her first in twelve years...
...Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs was no flippant bedroom farce. Fat, fiftyish Author Wilson, book critic for the New Yorker, had written it as a critique of modern manners and morals. Most reviewers agreed that it was an honest and intelligent work; many a reviewer and reader found it labored, obscure, pedantic and depressing. By all the form charts it should have...