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Word: millionairesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...29th birthday, to the importunities of a widow lady named Jenny Patterson, who won by her persistence an immortality in such parentheses as this. After this momentous event Shaw slept around casually and childlessly for several years, until in his middle forties he married a "green-eyed Irish millionairess" after she had nursed him through a serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste and childless, for the rest of their days--in spite, presumably, of the demands of the Life...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...paratyphoid. Jean Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night at the opera with Jean and Domenica-and died that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Lacaze Labyrinth | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...three months' pay-in stocks. Traditionally given in December, the bonuses used to go for rice wine, New Year's gifts and new clothes. Now a flood of mail urges Japanese wives to "multiply your huband's bonus wisely -in stocks. To become a millionairess is no longer an impossible dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Love v. Stocks | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Out of Cambridge, Much Ado | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...game of hide-and-SEC with such flimflamboyance that one day he gets the sulks because he has made only $5,000,000 by closing time. With his filthy lucre, Sanders buys himself a fine Fifth Avenue mansion and decorates it with such costly bric-a-brac as a millionairess (Zsa Zsa Gabor), her secretary (Nancy Gates), the wife of a business rival (Coleen Gray), the widow (Lisa Ferraday) of the brother he had betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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