Word: fiftyish
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...crazy." Lieut. Colonel William ("Willy") Wyler, peacetime cinema director (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), wartime director of the combat film, The Memphis Belle, made his first visit in 15 years to his birthplace - the city of Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine. There he was welcomed by Madame Henriette, fiftyish, manager of his late father's dry-goods store; she had somehow kept the shop out of Nazi clutches, courted death to salt away the war-year profits, handed over to astounded Willy Wyler $4,000 in French francs...
Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Maria Wrobel, small, fiftyish, wore a stylish black hat and real silk stockings...
...fiftyish Balletomane de Cuevas, who does an occasional pirouette and arabesque himself, is no man to be daunted by a little red ink. Five years ago he lost $300,000 backing the "Masterpieces of Art" show at the New York World's Fair. "That was a great loss," he admits cheerfully. "A great opportunity for educational possibilities, but nobody went...
...Democratic county convention in Dies's home county had officially denounced its Congressman as a "demagogue" three days before he quit. Even more important, Dies for the first time had first-rank opposition, a man who would get the labor vote, but not be tied to it. Fiftyish, iron-grey Judge Jesse Martin Combs, a vigorous jurist, has never been defeated; he is a States' rights critic of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program but an ardent supporter of the President's foreign policy...