Word: willaumez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea's northern shore, Brigadier General William Rupertus and his 1st Marine Division had been fighting their way in the direction of Rabaul. It was a slow pace. Last week they speeded it up, jumped overwater to a new objective: the airfield and town of Talasea on the Willaumez Peninsula, 170 miles from Rabaul...
...thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced. Technician Nast became a millionaire...
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