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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Playground Superintendents | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Battle of Oran last week terminated an era in Anglo-French relations: that of the Entente Cordiale. The Entente, born in 1904 and practically the only political monument to fun-loving, Francophile Edward VII, was only a general understanding primarily concerning African colonial matters. By 1907 it had blossomed into the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia, and bore its outstanding fruit in lining up the Allies against the central continental power of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: End of an Entente | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...whimsical News-Commercial recently published some ads for the fun of it. Smeared across two columns on Page 1 were a series of advertisements which Editor Arrington printed to "wake up" the people of Mississippi. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanted . . . | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Flight v. Fun. Present medical fashion regards all alcoholics as neurotics and psychotics who drink to flee from harsh reality, overcome a feeling of inadequacy, or express homosexual tendencies kept under during sober periods. Doctors' great problem, says Director Nolan Dan Carpentier Lewis of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is to uncover the mental disorders which drive men to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors on Alcohol | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...birthplace was the Bauhaus, famed German school of architecture and design which Nazis later turned into a domestic science school for girls. It had a bony infancy. Fad-hungry interior decorators pounced on its chromium steel chairs and glass-topped tables. But many a buyer found it short on fun, however long on function. Trouble was-and still is-that metal furniture was cold in surface and line, clammy or hot according to the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furniture by Assembly Line | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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