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Word: theo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting (it is awful). There is no market in South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Egotist | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...writer is not especially interested in theo!ogy, but merely opposed to the public being fed on BUNK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paralysis of Diaphragm | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...band was delayed several minutes at the end of the first half by an uncalled for demonstration by our guests, and all attempts of the announcer to give scores of other games were met by a deafening outburst from the youthful musicians. Invite the children, but not their trombones! THEO. FLEISHER '24 Ocober...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/18/1922 | See Source »

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