Word: flossiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that he offered her a paying job. So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week. Symington, a lot less famous in those years than his wife, followed her nightclub trail, building up an undeserved reputation as a playboy...
...subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...
...bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other Hearst city editor, made the Examiner (circ. 350,739) Los Angeles' most readable daily and a clamor that echoes from the smallest cell in the Lincoln Heights jail to the flossiest mansion in Westwood...
...Francisco nightclub, was set upon by two seamen when he repaired to the men's room. Bridges suffered a black eye, puffed cheekbone, kicks in the head, stomach and groin. Said Nightclub Owner Sally Stanford, famed as the onetime owner of San Francisco's flossiest brothel, after having the attackers arrested: "I was shocked at the language used by these two characters." Said Bridges: "I'm used to this...
From Leningrad to Baku, the Russians rolled out their flossiest Red carpets last week and strove to outdo the welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S. Jet fighters escorted Sukarno's plane. Guards of honor and equally well-drilled cheering multitudes greeted him at airports with bunting and banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother...