Word: fiftyish
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Tall, handsome, fiftyish, with a weakness for dizzy hats, Hedda is rated less inaccurate than most of the gossips, in a notoriously inaccurate field. An impetuous pourer-out, she seldom goes through a show without muffing words, mixing up names. Typical blunder last week was an item praising Jack Dempsey, which she gaffed into a plug for Jack Benny. Leaving the studio, she usually remarks, "Boy, I sure kicked that...
...from Skowhegan to San Diego, from Atlanta to Seattle. The skaters in Detroit's Arena Gardens, largest of the city's four roller rinks, were especially gay. For they were celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arena Gardens Roller Skating Club (membership 5,000) and honoring portly, fiftyish Fred Martin, the man mainly responsible for all this fun on wheels...
...something you can ward off if you wish, and I wish to. When I do fall in love I will prefer a European man, an Englishman or an Austrian. They usually are more powerful, strong, gallant and charming than American men." In Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Dillon Gable, greying, fiftyish, dramatic coach and onetime (1923-30) wife of Clark Gable, petitioned for the right to drop her last name. Said she: "I have been hounded to death by promoters who want to sell me schemes for exploiting Clark's name. . . . Just so that I have enough to live quietly...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...