Word: classier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the excitement: a furious feud between Commissioner John Stevens, 47, Wichita-born, of Lebanese descent, spokesman for the Lebanese-American colony known as "Syrians," or "West Side Indians," and City Commissioner Alfred Howse, 58, Wichita-born businessman, investment broker, real-estate executive, who lives on the classier East Side of town...
...world's top-earning, high-fashion model, Manhattan's svelte Dovima (a blend of her given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt...