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Forbes  (fôrbz), B(ertie) C(harles) 1880-1954.
American publisher and businessman who founded and edited (1916-1954) Forbes magazine. His son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919-1990), who assumed the editorship in 1957, was an avid collector and set six world records in hot-air ballooning in 1973.
Forbes [fɔːbz]
n
(Biographies / Forbes, George William (1869-1947) M, New Zealand, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: prime minister) George William. 1869-1947, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1930-35)


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Alliston Forbes sticks up the Alta Trust for two millions en' gets less'n two years.
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Forbes flung open the door, and we both ran into the back room or kitchen, but the woman had got there before us.
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An honest and natural slum dialect is more tolerable than the attempt of a phonetically untaught person to imitate the vulgar dialect of the golf club; and I am sorry to say that in spite of the efforts of our Academy of Dramatic Art, there is still too much sham golfing English on our stage, and too little of the noble English of Forbes Robertson.
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