Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashing-eyed, 20-year-old queen of the Western Hemisphere is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 120 Ibs. and has black hair, sweeping black lashes and a mouth compared by one inspired limeño to the ace of hearts. She also is heiress to a fortune of 500 million soles (more than $32 million at the free exchange rate). Her maternal grandfather, Eulogio Fernandini, had a finger in almost every financial pie in the country and was known to his contemporaries as an ardent collector-of gold coins. After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their...
Roussil, a war veteran who supports his wife and one-year-old child by working as a part-time steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week's end it looked as though the hubbub had won his Family Group a more promising home. An art dealer offered to put the statue up for sale in his gallery...
...Cleveland, Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, who for 16 years has plumped for pensions for old folks, offered a good reason for further plumping. After caring for his young grandson, Craig Alan, he saicT: "Babysitting is only that in name. With a two-and-a-half-year-old, it's mostly baby walking. I'm tired...
...year's slickest shows opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. The paintings, by 62-year-old Tsuguharu Foujita, were as clear and dry as the Martinis served at the opening, though not so powerful...
...slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita of old...