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Word: gish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next week as a prospective First Lady, an officer at SHAPE in Paris gives an estimate: "Take an average pretty Iowa girl, transplant her to Colorado, give her parents enough money to take winter holidays, let her bump around the world with the Army, give her a modified Lillian Gish hairdo complete with bangs, and that's Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower." A friend added: "Mamie doesn't change much, but that's the reason for Mamie's charm. Mamie won't be an Eleanor. She isn't a girl who wants publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The General's Lady | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...seeks for herself, or strives to reflect, the fame of others-even of her husband. In the rarefied atmosphere at SHAPE she has seen no reason to be anybody but the same Mamie Eisenhower who was a belle in Denver (everyone said she really looked a lot like Lillian Gish), the wife of an obscure young subaltern in the 1920s (she still plays piano by ear at parties, as she did in the old garrison days), and a woman who has always managed to bridge the years with old friends. At 55, her figure is still good; she stands about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The General's Lady | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Murray Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). A salute to the movie industry. Guests: Ruby Keeler, Buster Keaton, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, John Wayne, Harold Lloyd, Francis X. Bushman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The Joyous Season, with Lillian Gish, Wesley Addy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Lillian Gish in Ladies in Retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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