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Word: maida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maida Van Schuyler, who books shows for stag banquets, but "there isn't a dime left in this lousy business. . . . The moving pictures have spoiled it." So she is thinking of becoming a medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carnies, Heels and Indians | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex for Three | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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