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Word: ida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida is perhaps Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's most monumental work. It has been shocking the staid since its first appearance eleven years ago. One Chicago critic saw the picture and headlined his review: "Horror Features Exhibit." The detailed enormity of Ida, with her fat, sagging, varicose-veined and slightly lavender flesh, is Albright's hallmark. Merry-minded artist of ultra-gloomy pictures, Ivan Albright of Warrenville, Ill. increased his reputation with one of last season's most shuddered-at paintings. That Which I Should Have Done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. ART: ALBRIGHT | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Died. Stanley Lupino, 47, British music-hall comedian, actor, playwright, musicomedy song writer; in London. Born into a famed theatrical family whose name had been associated with the English stage for over 300 years, he was the father of Cinemactress Ida Lupino. (Actor-Manager Lupino Lane is his cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Deadline. In Brooklyn, 75-year-old Mrs. Ida Atkin danced gaily at her son's wedding, brushed aside pleas to take it easy with, "I don't know whether I'll be alive tomorrow, but I do know I'm alive tonight." At midnight she dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Women's Christian Temperance Union figured last week that the U.S. is letting the war drive it to drink 17.7% more liquor than last year. Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driven to Drink | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...reduce the price to such a point that they could not stay in the business at all ... that this was only a question of reputable business practice." There were other veiled threats of how Standard might retaliate. It all made Mr. Howard sound like a Standard Oil man of Ida Tarbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PATENTS: Paraflow and Paradox | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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