De Forest
Americannoun
noun
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The concept of the Great American Novel, introduced by John W. De Forest in 1868, has always been a mirage, since the country is too varied to be contained in a single work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Wisconsin purchasing agents on March 26 paid $19,799 for 2,100 N95s at an Ace Hardware in De Forest.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2020
And many of them — De Forest in particular — pursued a kind of hallucinatory visual overload in advance of the counterculture.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
Artists included in this show at the Parker include figures such as Wallace Berman, Kurt Schwitters, Roy De Forest and Franklin Williams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
When she went to Philadelphia, Green, who was shadowing her, entirely unknown to De Forest, found that she frequented a famous restaurant on Eighth street, where she met Mr. Hastenbrook.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan
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