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Word: graveses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Someone once remarked that "there are more people buried in Old Granary who are known to more people than are buried in any other cemetery in the country," and he was probably right. Visitors are often disappointed that the conspicuous granite obelisk bearing the name "Franklin" is Benjamin Franklin's...

Author: By E. PARKER Haydon jr., | Title: Circling the Square | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

Up in the Attic. One, entitled Christina's World had cost Wyeth 3½ months of steady work. "I'd go up to Christina's attic every morning at 8:30," he recalled, "and not come down until supper time. Christina's a close friend of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close to Home | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Summing up her impact on London (1923-31), Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jaunty Sermons | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

In Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outward Signs | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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