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Word: wispish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat Back-Slappers | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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