Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while the press eagerly predicted that he was about to marry pretty, brunette Countess Beatty, 36, the former Adelle Dillingham O'Connor of Oklahoma City...
...first husband was Lawyer William V. O'Connor, now California deputy attorney general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
School of No Knocks. In Milwaukee Ronald O. Huff drove into a filling station, told the attendant "never mind the the gas." pulled out a pistol and robbed him of $33, was caught by police after his car ran out of gas eight blocks away...
...years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip of the U.S. market to one-third. Now Singer is bouncing back. It says that its Slant-O-Matic, $399.50 in Early American cabinet, can match-sew any foreign make. Soon sister Susie should sew a shirt in seconds...
...candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped vests and pencil-line mustache, looks like a proper pallbearer at Dion O'Banion's funeral. The Chorus Girl (Cyd Charisse) is overwearily underworldly...