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Word: twentyish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Post-Impressionist Pablo Picasso, 67, paused in the glare of the sun for an earthy, realistic photograph while strolling near his villa at Vallauris, near Cannes, with his twentyish mistress, Francoise Gillot, and their two-year-old son, Claude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...word for the performances of Joseph Cotton, Ginger Rogers, and Spring Byington in this motion picture. Miss Byington is perfect as the understanding mother of, unfortunately, Miss Temple; Miss Rogers pertrays an extremely difficult role, with great skill, although one begins to have difficulty imagining her as twentyish. Cotten has perhaps the only worthwhile scene in the film: a five-minute psychoneurotic's battle with himself for control of his mind, and he does it with unbelievable dignity and power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/17/1945 | See Source »

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