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Word: marsans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...principal character is Mrs. Marsan, an idle widow on an annuity who in real life would be rated as an unbearable nuisance. She pries into her neighbors' personal affairs, is happiest when unsuspecting lovers or brawlers are focused in her handy opera glasses. With the bumbling kindliness of her type, she is also a busybody good neighbor, always willing to help, and capable, even, of pawning her opera glasses to help a friend. Life for Mrs. Marsan is excitingly recorded by New York's scare-headlined, tabloid Daily News: "She liked the love scrapes and the marriage tangles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tabloid Angel | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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