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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Even his opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Mapmaker Harrison thinks that most mapmakers are: 1) too tradition-bound, 2) lacking in color sense. He grades the type on his own maps to help readers, sprays his colors on with an airbrush -in much the same way and for the same reason that George Petty sprays his voluptuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mapmaker | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Even such shrewd comics as Hiram Sherman and Eve Arden fail to be very funny, while Kern's prettiest tunes are drowned out by the heavy artillery of the plot. The show gets good only when the barn theatre is forgotten and some attractive youngsters such as Ingenue Grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Though big names are notably absent from the roster of players (most of whom are drawn from the 10,000,000 sandlot baseballers and softballers in the U. S.), many a onetime star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Baseball | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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