Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which lurk in her wake. The picture is funny, inasmuch as Flynn is far more convincing as a playboy than as a knight-crrant...
...married 34-year-old Amelia Orr Ronin in Ensenada, Mexico, Thomas Fortune Ryan II, scion of the banking and mining empire, awoke and found that his third bride had vanished. He proceeded to Los Angeles, took a bridal suite, waited two days before the bride returned. Groaned veteran Playboy Tommy: "I don't know when the honeymoon ended, but it's over. You never can tell what a redhead will do. But she's coming up here tomorrow. Or maybe we'll get together in a month. How do I know?" - Emerging from the gallery during...
...customers was cut from 50 to 33⅔% the broker's commission. In the case of other finders or "attaches" it was cut to 25%. The Exchanges also ruled that all "attaches" must have a City office under Exchange control. This meant that many a West End playboy who had drummed up business at club and race track would have to go to work. > Land sharks were swishing through bombed areas, buying up blitzed property at cut rates in the expectation of resale during postwar reconstruction. Last month Lord John Charles Walsham Reith, Minister of Works and Buildings, complained...
Retreat to Pleasure (by Irwin Shaw, produced by The Group Theatre) is an embarrassing attempt to mix farce, comedy and lofty social sentiments. A beautiful Ohio WPA administrator takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
...Vienna playboy Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who modernized and commanded Austria's Heimwehr, is now a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force, was rapped in the British Parliament last week as "the man who assassinated democracy in Austria...