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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegas, Nev., which advertises "Fun in the Sun" for tourists, a tribe of New Mexican Jemez Indians put on a rain dance. Next day the rains came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much fun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Today's Fun. Seen together, her pictures looked extraordinarily alike in tone and content. Thinly painted in tempera and oil glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

After lots of Harvard songs, Holmes appeared again in some favorites and a majestic performance of "The Prayer of Thanksgiving" with plenty of power from the organ. By this time the audience was shouting with enthusiasm derived from beer and music, which combination makes it fun to go to the Pops...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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