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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people see a nude in it I don't object. Anyway I long ago quit painting and took up chess. 1 was becoming a professional painter, and professionalism is always the death of Art. The old masters were professionals, which means that they were one-man factories. Art isn't made in factories. ... I find California a white spot in a gloomy world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Equally caustic were other newshawks' comments. Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper: "So far as the White House reporters can learn officially there is no political campaign on, or if there is, Mr. Roosevelt isn't running for office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Water Works | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...York Sun, I'd have polished it up a bit more. ... As a matter of fact the way the story came through it said six kinds of pie, but I jacked it up to eight. I figured the story must be pretty near right. There isn't anybody in Washington County [_i. e., 'Quoddy, Perry, Calais] with enough brains to think up a thing like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Pies & Pigs | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...asbestos heir, who is separated from his wife but plays public host to a beauteous blonde "secretary" and a beauteous brunette "French teacher," Last week Manville happily gibbered to news hawks: "Miss Taylor is no relation at all, ex cept that I am in love with her. . . . This isn't Utah. I am already married. But if I am ever divorced from my wife. ... I may marry Nancy Carroll." †With Norma Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thorpe v. Astor | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Said Crooner Jarrett in New York: "It may have been necessary for the morale of the team. . . . Eleanor isn't a 10-year-old. . . . Those fellows have a job on their hands taking care of that Olympic crowd. ... I don't know whether they were right or wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Like Champagne | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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