Word: fiftyish
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...Like a Housewife." Small, hard-eyed Allyne Velome Scheerer Carpenter Nugent, the boss, is a lithe and fiftyish fireball who has the respect, if not the love, of her staff. She inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...
Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan...
Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...
...Author. The most inward of men and fastidious of playwrights, tall, fiftyish George Kelly oddly enough first won fame as a vaudeville actor. Totally lacking in ambition to write, he got started by writing his own vaudeville material...