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Word: gingering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...network. But what TV chains have apparently overlooked is that some of the "great" oldtimers may not look so shiny today. Last week's big TV movie, Top Hat, for example, did not look as good as it did in its heyday (1935). The Irving Berlin-Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers combo was still sprightly, but technically Top Hat showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Return of the Oldtimers | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Britain's rising Cinemactress Diana (A Kid for Two Farthings) Dors, 24, and Hollywood's seasoned (44) Ginger Rogers bumped into each other on the French Riviera at a reception in the Aga Khan's villa near Cannes. There for the annual International Film Festival, the platinum pair looked strikingly sisterly - a tribute to Ginger's durable beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Died. Clarence ("Ginger") Beaumont, 79, farmer and oldtime baseball player, who broke into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Energy, of Course." Outside Hollywood, few users advertise the fact that they are among the pill buyers. But in the unbuttoned movie colony, Kendis Rochlen, movie columnist for the Mirror-News, reported: "I went from Ginger Rogers' party to Jose Ferrer's party to a dinner party, and everywhere they were talking about it. My husband is on it now. He used to be very nervous, really just miserable. Now he doesn't get mad as quick or stay mad as long. He has no energy, of course." Says Milton Berle: "It's worked wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Don't-Give-a-Damn Pills | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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