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Word: smocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandma Bachante | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...ever bothers me here"). She lunches standing up at a nearby soda fountain, watching the people around her and "hoping for something to paint." A tall, brisk woman with braided black hair and attentive brown eyes, Isabel Bishop looks rather like a chemistry teacher in her tattered white working smock...

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

...last figures that Vigeland finished before he died was modestly clad in a smock: a self-portrait of that remarkable sculptor, Gustav Vigeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Zoo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Princeton team was--Rushers Messrs, E. Nichols, Van Dyke, Potter, Enos, Ballard, McNair, Wylly, Half-tends, Messrs. B. Nichols (captain), Smock, Stewart, McCalmot, McCosh. Tends, Messrs. Cutts, Dodge, Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball Team Scores Gentlemanly Win Over Visitors From Princeton | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Back of the Dinner Jacket | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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