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Word: aubrey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocky, cheerful W. O. Hodges, 45, was sheriff of Denton County (pop. 41,365), Texas for only four years, but he died last week a famous man. Before taking office, Hodges was just an ordinary sort of fellow; he grew up in a little cow town named Aubrey, spent a year at Texas Christian University, got a Depression job as a cop in the county seat, went to war as a coast guardsman, came home and started running for sheriff. He made it the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Famous Man | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...57th Street galleries will turn itself into a chamber of horrors. The occasion: the first U.S. show of British Painter Francis Bacon,* who is responsible for perhaps the most original and certainly the ghastliest canvases to appear in the past decade. Bacon has brought the finicky satanism of Aubrey Beardsley, Britain's famed Victorian horror dabbler, up to date, but he tops Beardsley as surely as, in literature, Franz Kafka topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Snapshots from Hell | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECENT & READABLE | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Aubrey Menen. The noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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