Word: fortyishness
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...news that William III was on the way? Last week, after brooding darkly about the whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence died away. Titillated readers of the society columns would have to go to the right cocktail parties to find out that the stork was orbiting over neither...
Another who believed in Scurry's future was Edith McKanna, a handsome, fortyish widow, who began buying up leases iff 1945 when she got out of the armed services. Soon she controlled 86,000 acres, now has seven producing wells. She gives dinners of pheasant and venison in her oil-lamplighted farmhouse, where some of the field's biggest oil deals have been closed. Veteran Oilman C. T. McLaughlin came to Scurry County 15 years ago to get away from the business, struck it rich also. He found that his 5,200-acre Diamond M ranch was right...
Married. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 77, onetime U.S. ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (he resigned last month), goateed younger brother of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch; and Anne Maria, Baroness Mackay, fortyish, Dutch socialite; he for the second time; in Wyandanch...
...Children," said the prisoner in sneering condescension to the news photographers who had gathered to see her leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...
Baseball's immortal Ty Cobb, 62, who was divorced by his first wife two years ago after 39 years and five children, was all set to try again with Frances Cass, fortyish, twice-married mother...