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Word: receptionist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty blonde Dolly Pullman Astor, 28, who was a $65-a-week receptionist before she married multimillionaire John Jacob Astor III and ditched him six weeks later, had her maintenance raised by the Florida Supreme Court from $75 to $250 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...mammoth program for increasing school salaries, the teachers told them that big business would oppose the plan because it would increase taxes. Whitaker & Baxter did not agree, and succeeded in lining up the business community behind the teachers. Accosting one corporation president, Clem says, "We asked what his receptionist earned. He said $300 a month. We showed him that the minimum teacher salary at that time was just over $100 a month. He was a man who was always complaining about radicals among schoolteachers. We asked him what the hell he expected. And he came around." So did the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Partners | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...capable of telling an intelligent lie!" In the apparent belief that Dolly also was not a very bright liar, disgusted Judge Giblin awarded her an unhandsome $75-a-week support money, called it a "$10-a-week raise" over her best paid job (as a Chicago radio-station receptionist) before her Astoriction. He added feelingly: "I'd like to kick her in the fanny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Survivor. De Gasperi spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican library, filing index cards and acting as a receptionist. He stretched his $80-a-month salary by doing German translations at a nickel a page. Surreptitiously, he also kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats. When Mussolini fell, a small but well-organized Christian Party was ready. In December 1944 De Gasperi became Italy's Foreign Minister. A year later he was Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a new blue suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man of the Mountains | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Yoghurt in Paris. At 32, pretty Kristina Czaykowska, the heroine of Paris Original, is a receptionist in "Maison Deschamps," a Parisian stronghold of haute couture. She feels more like a shopworn beauty than a sleeping one. In the spring of 1947, she is three years away from her native Warsaw and eight years estranged from a husband who opted for the "People's Poland." She lives on yoghurt and corn bread, scurries home each night to her lonely, thimble-sized flat, and keeps telling herself that Paris is wonderful. But the only Paris Kristina knows, the goldfish bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Destination: Hammock | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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