Word: playgirls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and ranking prewar playgirl of Fascist Italy, was anticipating a tidy windfall: the U.S. Government was expected to release to her some $40,000 in royalties on her late husband's Ciano Diaries, now that the Italian government had decided it was all right for her to accept...
...today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...
Victor Mature, from a bed in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, announced the breakup of his eight-month marriage to Martha Stephenson Kemp, complained that she was a "playgirl." Beautiful Mr. Mature was also suffering itchily from primrose poisoning acquired when he was tarred, feathered and dumped in a bush for a film scene...