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Unhappily, as was often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frame-Up | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...comes on looking like something from a dentifrice advertisement and breezes through the part with unflagging brio, brilliance and briskness. As Kate, Ruby Dee enters appropriately in a flaming red gown and black hat with red panache, and proceeds to convey something of a hip-swinging tigress...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Stratford's 'Shrew' | 7/12/1965 | See Source »

SHIRLEY BASSEY BELTS THE BEST! (United Artists). The mulatto Tigress from Tiger Bay, the waterfront district of Cardiff, is big in London but never had a blazing hit in the U.S. until she hammered out the brazen curtain raiser to Goldfinger The Goldfinger theme song also opens this album of Broadway ballads, including Peo ple and Once in a Lifetime, all emotionally amplified by the torchy singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 11, 1965 | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...fronts of cereal boxes. Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. of Fort Worth advertises its campus slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Burning Bright | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...this the trapped woman watches in helpless horror, but fear and anger do their work in her, and when the killers at last come to kill her they discover that the lady in the cage has turned into a tigress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivia Goes Ape | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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