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Word: warrenton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Mrs. McLean rose to her zenith, the cave dwellers had retreated one by one to the hills, to ride to hounds over the Virginia and Maryland countryside, to gather at the Warrenton Hunt in their pink coats, or to sulk in their silken tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Married. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 41, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American; and Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini, 28, the Washington Times-Herald's modish society gossipist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Warrenton, Va. Her first was Igor ("Ghigi") Cassini, himself the society gossipist of the Journal-American, which in reporting the marriage made no mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Married. Adele Astaire (Lady Charles Cavendish), 47, bubbly, onetime dancing partner of brother Fred; and Kingman Douglass, 51, Manhattan investment broker; both for the second time (her No. i, from whom she got her title, died in 1944); in Warrenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Official Backer. In Warrenton, Ore., Mayor F. M. Wilson stepped on the gas, shot backwards into a store, stopped in front of a clerk's desk, turned inquiringly to his fellow passenger, who politely refused His Honor a driver's license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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