Search Details

Word: gwendolyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

While awaiting the first curtain of Quadrille, the playgoer can glance over the program and figure out in the main what form the play is going to take. Listed on the bill are a Reverend Edgar Speven, a Gwendolyn (His Daughter) and a Catchpole. There is also a noblewoman with an awesome surname and a placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Quadrille | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...inopportunely. To make sure nothing else flew away, he had 200-odd private policemen on hand to watch his guests and their estimated $9,000,000 worth of jewels. The cops were impeccably clad as 18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned up in a few strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make-Work Project | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Lesser Evil. In Youngstown, Ohio, Nurse Gwendolyn Owens, 24, ignored the railroad brakeman's red lantern, drove on until she crashed into a train, later explained: "I didn't want to stop in that neighborhood after dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Mary Gwendolyn Brigham '53 of Moors Hall and Montclair, New Jersey, and Shirley Laird '53 of Moors and Summit, New Jersey, were appointed Grant-in-Aid Chairman and "Drumbeats" Director, respectively, by the 'Cliffe Student Council yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Council Names Heads of Committees | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

...Karloff doll for little Gwendolyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EI Christmas Cale | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next