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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Hearst gunman for 1932 is 75-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, creator of "Happy Hooligan." Never an art student, Cartoonist Opper worked long for oldtime Puck, joined the Hearst press in 1899, first won fame & fortune with his cartoons of theMcKinley-Bryan campaign of 1900. For 30 years Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Cartoons: Potent Pictures | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

In Glen Ridge, N. J., in revenge for a town zoning ordinance preventing her from renting her house to an oil company, Mrs. Daniel A. Warren hung red flannels in the front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

On Chicago's North Side stands the White Elephant Rummage Shop, a gloomy brownstone repository for the cast off knicknacks of Society. There in an undignified jumble are gilt chairs, slightly nicked, hand painted lamps, ormulu clocks, embossed silverware, picture frames, bronze cupids and napoleons. Back & forth among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adoration | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

At St. Paul was the Professional Golfers' Association championship, hardest match-play tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

For their choruses, second-string sing ers and orchestra players, Laurence Productions drew largely upon Cleveland tal ent. They assembled 500 performers for Carmen, plus donkeys and mules. To last year's spectacular Aïda, they added 100 new spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland Opera | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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