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Word: zsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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When Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor refused to co-star with her husband Cinemactor George Sanders on the Tallulah Bankhead radio show (because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Zsa Zsa's older sister Maqda Gabor was having a quarrel with her insurance company. She was having trouble collecting a claim of $17,250 to cover assorted minks and gems stolen from her midtown apartment last winter. The policy would never have been written in the first place, said the company, if it had known all the facts. Magda is a well-known person, moving in highly publicized circles, and is therefore a "target risk," which neither she nor the insurance agent had bothered to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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