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Word: fors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The only opera Boston even pretends to support comes from Chicago, for two weeks each year.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Opera | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Grandma Brown's last baby (the author's husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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