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Word: sixtyish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kate Meyrick, sixtyish, mother of eight, London night club proprietor; of influenza; at the home of a son-in-law, the Earl of Kinnoull; in London. Choice hostesses at her clubs (Silver Slipper, 43 Club) were her daughters, available only to the socially & politically eminent. She served five prison terms for selling liquor without a license, for bribing police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

First U. S. women's tennis championship was won in 1887 by tall, slim Ellen F. Hansell. Today she is grey-haired, sixtyish. Married to Taylor Allderdice, onetime president of National Tube Co., she is the mother of four daughters, two sons. Preferring the social column to the sport page, she plays the piano, sings, is seen on the tennis court only about once a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jubilee | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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