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Word: russet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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From 8:15 to 4:30 each working day Wallace Stevens sits at a big, uncluttered desk in a comfortable office with a thick russet carpet. As vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., he spends his business hours dealing with fidelity and surety claims. Nobody would take 70-year-old Insuranceman Stevens for a poet, let alone the hard-to-read kind. But, after hours, Stevens is just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Pies | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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