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Word: fors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was a party in Mrs. Rice's forbidden room. The room had been moved to Philadelphia's Museum of Art (to which Mrs. Rice willed it), but the goings-on might well have furrowed Mrs. Rice's brow. For 500 socialites crowded in among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

As for the Georgian, it was way behind. With a circulation of only 75,178, and such local advertising crumbs as the Journal and the Constitution dropped from their table, rumor said the Georgian had lost around $200,000 a year. Ably edited, it was blighted by a succession of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Irwin Hoffman's brothers are mining engineers. Irwin Hoffman himself is a solid, soft-voiced artist who goes down a mine shaft almost as often as they do. Once there, he sits cramped in a lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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