Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation...
...story: "All in all, the new U.S. ally [Emperor Bao Dai] in Southeast Asia is a weak reed. And the alliance is as ironic as anything in history. For the same U.S. Government which abandoned the Chinese Nationalists because they were not good enough was committed ... to defend a playboy emperor and the worst and almost the last example of white man's armed imperialism in Asia...
...Playboy. Most of his time he spent at Cannes, on the French Riviera, where he had bought the palatial Château de Thorenc (reported purchase price: $250,000). In his garage were a pale blue Lincoln convertible, a black Citroen limousine, a blue Simca "Gordoni" one-seat racer, a sleek Italian two-seater, a Simca-8 sports model. He also kept several motorcycles. He insisted that every engine run "as accurately as a watch...
However, I cannot agree with your description of me as a "banjo-twanging playboy." I do play the banjo . . . [but if] you have in mind the commonly accepted definition of one who leads a life of lazy indolence, imbibes freely of strong liquor and chases women, then I must take issue with you. Mrs. Taylor and I lead a very quiet life. We seldom entertain and seldom go out except to official functions. My drinking is limited to an occasional highball. I have been absolutely faithful to my wife for all the 20 years of our happy marriage. I work...
...ever been an Astronomy major and a playboy at the same time. After the sophomore year, long hours of extra-curricular work run off a squeeze play against social life and outside interests...