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Word: stylishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio heated with a rusty kerosene stove. Morris Graves paints birds in a lonely cabin near Campbell Lake in Western Washington. With 16 other U.S. artists, many practically unknown, Painters Bloom and Graves made their first formal appearance in the art world last week, chaperoned by Manhattan's stylish Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mass Debut | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...idea that "night blindness" is caused only by lack of vitamin A, and can be cured by eating carrots, is stylish but false according to a group of scientists in Edinburgh. They declare that most night blindness among soldiers is psychological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carrots Are Not Enough | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Sidewalk Talk | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Georges Bernanos is concerned with the least stylish of possible human attributes: holiness. "Compared to it, even the urge of genius is a frivolous game. Lord, every life finely lived bears witness to You. But the witness which is borne by saints must be torn with irons out of their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saint & Satan | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy. A member of Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Screwball Art | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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