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Word: boise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Panama locale, lusciously tinted by Designer Raoul Pène du Bois, who has also clothed a luscious chorus line in just the right places, gives Cole Porter a chance to indulge his talent for Latin-American rhythms (previous examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Porter on Panama | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Next day, while Mrs. Howe scored a matronly 88, young Mrs. Stevens, twice-married and a 51-year-old grandmother, chalked up 83 to win the tournament by seven strokes. Champion Stevens had won the Senior championship once before, but the name that appears most often on the big silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oldstress Golf | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Last week onetime Champion Du Bois, now Mrs. Richard V. Pell, finished seventh, with a score of 184 (95-89). "She did marvelously well," chirped her cronies, explaining that 200-lb., thrice-married Leila Cruikshank Stockton Du Bois Pell, now 58, and more interested in showing dachshunds than playing golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oldstress Golf | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Elegantly costumed by Raoul Pene du Bois, Hold On to Your Hats has plenty of fine dancing, if few memorable tunes. Best of the lot: There's a Great Day Coming, Manana, The World Is In My Arms. To wind up his show, Jolson abandons Composer Lane's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Negroes dislike twice-disillusioned Du Bois's newest plan because it accepts racial segregation. Whites dislike its Marxist economics. At 72, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois stands alone but not unrespected. When he broke with the N. A. A. C. P. in 1934, his colleagues conceded: "He created what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Negro's Autobiography | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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