Word: fortyishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia's fortyish, bouncy Dr. Gene Weltfish, who teaches anthropology (the science of Man), is a woman, but that is not the only reason she is sometimes dubious about man's future. Like many another scientist (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), she is shocked by the horrors of a war in which scientific brains were deciding factors. In September's Scientific Monthly, Dr. Weltfish proposed a professional oath for all scientists, like the Hippocratic Oath which physicians honor...
...Hollywood's best movie bitches (Since You Went Away), a veteran of Orson Welles's Mercury Theater and radio's MARCH OF TIME, chic, redhaired, fortyish Miss Moorehead has perfect timing, can control her voice as expertly as a radio engineer can control sound. Before going on the air with Sorry, she never takes a peek at the script, feels it would unnerve her. She acts the part without an audience; during the half hour (which is almost a monologue) wears herself to a frazzle...
With him was his "socialist dog," born under Prince von Starhemberg's Fascist guns in 1934, which had accompanied Gedye through all his travels. Due back with him shortly, too, is blond, fortyish Madame Lepper, ex-Austrian civil servant, British by marriage, who started as Gedye's secretary, is now almost his collaborator...
...Agriculture and Forestry Minister it appointed Ku Cheng-kang, fortyish, hitherto Minister of Social Affairs. Minister Ku replaced General Sheng Shih-tsai, the sad-eyed epicure (he likes sea slugs, champagne, Russian chocolates) who last year lost the Government of Sinkiang for openly opposing Russian influence. At the recent meeting of the People's Political Council, General Sheng was violently denounced as a grafter and as one who took "lives lightly as grass...
...factor working against inflation is widespread confidence that UNRRA will put the country back on its feet. UNRRA has 270 men & women in Greece working under Buell Mahan, a fortyish, rawboned Minnesotan who was a regional food administrator...