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Word: poste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cunning Bun. Around 10:30 the Nixons quietly left. Their takeoff was followed by the departure of stiff, proper Society Matron Mrs. Merriweather Post, hair in cunning bun, dignity coolly intact. Hardly anyone cared; the band blasted out with Hold That Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose; jitterbugging, rock 'n' rolling, the crowd poured it on. At length, in the early hours of the morning, the party and the liquor began to subside. Tired, rumpled and glassy-eyed, the guests found their way to the door. Last to leave: Senator Russ Long, his face glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Early Politics: Joined Socialist Youth at 15, organized apprentice teachers; became secretary of Teachers Union in 1932 and lost his job. Married Odette Fraigneau, Arras post-office employee and ardent Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRENCH VISITOR | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...biggest art deals of its kind in the past quarter-century, the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson Collection, one of the finest private ingatherings in America, was sold this week for $3,250,000. Made up mostly of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, the collection was doomed when the Robinsons were divorced last August and the California courts directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of a Collection | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 1--The United Nations moved tonight to post its police forces in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba as Israeli forces leave under the agreement announced today...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.N. Force To Enter Gaza, Aqaba As Israel Prepares Withdrawal; Dulles Denies Promises to Israel | 3/2/1957 | See Source »

Clark, who was chief justice of allied high commission courts in post-war Germany, charged that Conant libeled him in a cabled memorandum to Secretary of State Dulles. Clark's accusation that German courts were Persecuting American civilians involved him in a two-year battle with Conant and the State Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Sues Conant For $150,000 Libel | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

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