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Word: guested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the security curtain rested the most prestigious guest ever to adorn Arizona Maine Chance: the First Lady of the U.S. For Mamie Eisenhower's stay, the management had prettied up a seven-room cottage, coating the outside with white and blue paint and redecorating Mamie's bedroom in pink, her favorite color (Elizabeth Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST LADY: Behind the Curtain | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...farm's ordinary guests, who pay $400 to $600 a week, it is early to bed and early to rise. On the breakfast tray, along with grapefruit and coffee, the guest finds a schedule card listing, half-hour by half-hour, her activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST LADY: Behind the Curtain | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Under a complex NBC contract, Berle is guaranteed an average $60,000 a year for the next 23 years. All he must do in return is make half a dozen more guest appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Sidney Lovett, 68, chaplain of Yale University, is many things to many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Uncle Sid | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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