Word: fortyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Brandeis, plump and fortyish, is the wife of Lawyer Jacob Gilbert, mother of two boys and a girl. Bryn Mawr graduated her in 1915. Last week she appeared before 400 women, including Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at Manhattan's Pan-Hellenic Hotel and in a soft voice flayed President Hoover for not balancing the Budget, for cutting taxes for "party purposes" at the beginning of the Depression. From her father's famed dissenting opinion in the Oklahoma ice case (TIME, April 4), she quoted...
...Hughes, spare and fortyish, is, like his father, a Brown graduate. In 1929 he was appointed U. S. Solicitor General by a President grateful for the elder Hughes's services during the 1928 campaign. With the President he played Hooverball each morning behind the White House. When his father was appointed Chief Justice he promptly resigned as Solicitor General, the Government's No. 1 advocate before the Supreme Court. As a parting keepsake the President gave him a Hooverball. Last week Mr. Hughes, also in a soft refined voice, addressed the Essex County (N. J.) Women...
...Associated Press, United Press and Hearst's International News Service which has four men whose technical leader is Dixon Hoste and whose most conspicuous member by far is garrulous, hysterical and frequently absurd Floyd Gibbons. Important papers have their own correspondents. In the Chicago Tribune bureau, Peggy Hull, fortyish. is the only female correspondent accredited by the War Department. She accompanied the Pershing expedition to Mexico in 1916, followed the A. E. F. in France, served in Siberia, is further distinguished by the longest by-line of all the correspondents in Shanghai. The three news services together send from...
Dazzled, the locksmith's younger daughter, then just 17, fell promptly in love with the fortyish Strong Man whom she had admired as a child, married him proudly...
Last year Publisher Hearst thought of revamping his Smart Set to compete with Publisher Nast's civilized Vanity Fair and the bright New Yorker (TIME, June 16, 1930). Out of work at the time was bald, sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went...