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Word: minxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa and his fifth wife, sometime Cine-minx Odile Rodin. 21, whooped it up at a Manhattan party, a thief invaded their Plaza Hotel suite, made off with jewelry and mink worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Ultimate Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Fleming fans were psychosocial cousins of prison torturers in Algeria. In the current Twentieth Century, Bernard Bergonzi called Fleming's attitude toward sex that "of a dirty-minded schoolboy." He noted that the women are usually pushovers in a Fleming novel, and cited a bra-and-pantie-clad minx named Tiffany Case, who says not too long after she meets Bond: "I want it all, darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Upper-Crust Low Life | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...long-ignorant minx, Julie Harris plays with a fine, broad, jubilant gusto-rapturous over having an admirer, ecstatic at being kissed. Never more skillful than when she is play-acting within a play, she is particularly funny, whenever she is deceiving her spouse. As the most sophisticated of Horner's conquests, Pamela Brown performs with a consummate knowingness, an ineffable arrogance; where Julie is all gurgle and prance, Pamela is all polish and sneer. The two actresses play rings around Laurence Harvey's over-mannered and frilly Horner. Indeed, the whole production is too much in a foppish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Most foreign-car fans still prefer a larger, roomier model, such as West Germany's Volkswagen, Britain's Hillman Minx. Looking for a share of this market, France's Renault is plumping its racy (up to 75 m.p.h.), efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Foreign Entries | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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