Word: fortyishness
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...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...
...some 600 near-hysterical women. As usual, nobody had to do much of anything to qualify. The first winner, picked by lot (given a purple mantle, a jeweled crown, seated on a throne, and offered everything she wanted-"within reason"-for 24 hours) was Mrs. Evelyn Lane, a fortyish housewife from Arcadia, Calif. What she wanted was a recording of the broadcast, to send to her soldier...
Divorced. By Ailsa Mellon Bruce, fortyish, shy, only daughter of the late multimillionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: Colonel David K. E. Bruce, 47, handsome socialite; after 19 years of marriage; in Palm Beach...
...five experimenting states* are taking the word of balding, fortyish Dr. R. William Eschmeyer, who has made Tennessee's Norris Lake his laboratory for the past two years. Knowing that 71% of all fish caught were taken during June-the first month after the season opened-Dr. Eschmeyer suspected that thousands of fast-growing southern game fish were dying of old age. He went down with his gill nets, fished up some facts...
...flatly conservative dean of U.S. newspaper art critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...