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Word: beane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Waver Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...later, performing before Omaha's highbusted Drama League, John was royally pickled. Up & down traveled his voice, to a bull-like bellow, to a bird-like whisper. Scandalized were Omaha's great ladies when he ad-libbed such lines as "Albert, you look like a pregnant string bean." Afterwards Barrymore's press-agent offered the excuse that he had been "very tired." Concurred the Drama League's lady president: "He must have been very, very, VERY tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Very, Very, VERY Tired | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Minute details of color, costume, and pesture, of the Kachinas dances are recorded in the paintings. Kachinas are marked representations of supernatural beings in the ceremonies of the Hopl Figures prominent is "Winter Solstice", "Bean Planting", and the "Home Dance", the three major ceremonies of the year are shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY SHOWS PAINTINGS | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...Conference has been decided upon and the men going to Princeton are as follows: Blair Clark '40, Garfield Horn '40, Charles N. Pollak H. '40, Alfred J. Gilbert '41, Spencer Klaw '41, Rodman Gilder '40, William W. Tyng '41, F. Cameron Ludwig '42, Michael P. Grace '40, Robert Bean '39, Francis Bourne '40, Arthur Cantor '40, David Epstein '39, Arthur Gardiner '39, Armand Gilinsky '40, Stanley Kapner '40, Richard S. Lane '41, Irving Lewis '39, Treadwell Ruml '39, James Stern '39, Michael Mayer '39, Richard Ruggles '39, F. Wolch Peel '39, Richard Gilder '36, Tatsuo Miyakawa '40, Kenneth Kramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 27 Delegates Will Represent Crimson at H-Y-P Conference | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: War-fare | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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