Word: fortyishness
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Died. Rosalynd Amper, fortyish, once the toast of Shanghai night-lifers; in an opium den, pipe in hand; in Shanghai. Blonde, lissome Rosalynd Amper began singing in 1923 in Shanghai's Del Monte Cafe, surrounded herself with generous suitors. In 1928 she was maimed in an automobile crash, lost her beauty and her lovers. To get money, she borrowed on the strength of a mythical special delivery letter, which never came but earned her the name of "Special Delivery Rose...
Dropping his vacation on the Riviera, dusky, fortyish Prince Sisowath Moni-vong of Cambodia, small State of south Indo-China, enlisted in the French Army for the duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...
...Fortyish Mary K. Browne, national women's tennis champion in 1912-13-14 and runner-up for the national golf title in 1924, who, playing for fun while on vacation from teaching tennis in an Ohio school, got a 79, fifth best score in the qualifying round...
...qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...