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Word: elegante (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At Parmelee Cove, the elegant estate still ruled by Reese's dotty grandmother, everyone knows the forms by heart. Schools, colleges, clothes, jobs and "marriage partners" all fit an ingrained pattern, and most of the Parmelee grandchildren, clustered with their families around the central money pile, like the arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Affluent Society | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

LUXURY STORE FIGHT for Harrods of London, Britain's most elegant department store, was won by thistle-sharp Scots Millionaire Hugh Fraser, after battle with rival Debenhams chain. Fraser, who heads $78 million no-frill, working-class House of Fraser chain, promises to maintain Harrods' morning-coat reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

The elegant. U.S.-born widow of Spain's auto-racing Marquis Alfonso de Portago came close to meeting death on wheels, as did the marquis in Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Epstein studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, made a little money as an illustrator. In his early 203 he invaded Paris, became a close friend of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Together they "discovered" and fell under the spell of African carving. Later, Epstein staked out elegant old London as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ago, the paintings are "touched" (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: FROM THE STONE AGE | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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