Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Manhattan reporters caught Doris Duke stepping off the same plane with Playboy Pat di Cicco, they asked the routine question, got a routine answer: "I just happened to meet him aboard the plane. I hadn't seen him for years and I hardly recognized him. I was glad to have somebody to talk with, but every time I talk to someone they try to make a romance...
...Remo, Italy, members of the honeymoon party bubbled with the news that 17-year-old Queen Narriman, who married Egypt's Playboy King Farouk last May, is expecting a child...
BUDGE PATTY, 27, defending champion and semi-reformed playboy, a player with a deft, steady touch (and a bad ankle), who has not won a major tournament in a year...
...Honorable Gent. In a liquor-licensing debate, Lady Astor got A.P.'s dander up by referring to him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped he: "A regular course of narcotics would be extremely good for the noble lady and would make her less restive." As usual, she had the last word: "The noble lady will be restive in this House long after the honorable gent...
...tycoon ($50 million worth of Manhattan subways); after an operation for an intestinal ailment; in Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...