Word: selma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judah Holstein, 32, of Los Angeles, last week faced the harrowing test that comes to almost every young working wife: her first big dinner party. A top Hollywood secretary (to Producer Stanley Kramer), Selma Holstein had to grapple with phones, mountains of paper, and hubbubing actors and directors all day, rush off at 6 p.m. to prepare a dinner for 14. To complicate matters, she had to go through her paces at her sister's house because her own apartment has no dining room, only a small kitchenette...
Several retrospective validations of the Social Prediction Table have been made since its publication in 1950. The first appeared in the spring of 1952--a study made by Bertram J. Black and Selma J. Glick of the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City...
...Selma, a schoolteacher, is almost 30 and so hungry for a husband that she breaks the boardinghouse rules and is caught reading the funnies to mousy Mr. Ingham-in Mr. Ingham's bed. But before Selma can say "I do," the landlady, who is 25 years mate-hungrier than the schoolteacher, baits her own sex lines and reels in the poor bachelor. And so it goes. Though his bawdy and sole theme is sex, Author Caldwell tells his tales with an easy colloquial style and the born storyteller's gift of making the reader want to know what...
...papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma, Ala. in about four hours...
...rain and a scent-bedeviling east wind, many dogs got confused, but one liver-and-white pointer bitch felt right at home on Maytag's acres. Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired to test her poise...