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Word: slenderella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...office has denied that any pressure has been exerted to force him to switch his candidacy to the Senate. But Knowland, a sort of Slenderella bulldog with a look of petrified integrity, wants to be governor, because it is one step closer to the White House in 1960. Knowland is a humorless man with a mission and a method, and the backing of party professionals in the Golden State...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Evolution | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...family house in the Northwest area. Marilyn's own lot began brightening when she was about twelve. She found a big welcome in the Fairteen Club, a teen-age group sponsored by a Chicago department store, won modeling contests there, was soon modeling for Slenderella, department stores, dress shops. Marilyn and boys discovered each other. "I was getting quite a nice little shape on me," she says. "I got whistles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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