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Word: artful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lackey rushed, muttering, to Reuben's, an all-night restaurant which for reasons best known to its management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Last week the tables were turned. Peppery Louis Maurer's works were safely tucked away in brochures of Americana or relegated to den and study walls, but Alfred's paintings were drawing crowds to a big, impressive Maurer show at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uneasy Pioneer | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Forming behind a depleted band and a group of local citizens at 7:15 p.m. a clock-long line of march snaked around the usual rally route and up to the Indoor Athletic Building to hear speeches by Coach Art Valpey and Captain Howie Houston and watch traditional routines performed by the Band and Cheerleaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1200 Shout and Parade to Welcome Homecoming; Otherwise Few Cavort | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

Cornell is the best football team Harvard will face in the Stadium all fall. It has depth, experience, and tremendous team speed, speed great enough to cause Art Valpey to rate it one of the four fastest teams in the country. And Coach George "Lefty" James never had it so good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Big Red Best We'll Face'---Valpey | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

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