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Word: affectionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a Dunster House Sophomore who had a deep and lasting affection for all other Sophomores. That is, until a few weeks ago. Now there is an Adams House Sophomore whom he simply can't abide. Every time the D.H.S. sees the A.H.S. the D.H.S.'s upper lip curls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/6/1935 | See Source »

The Scarlet Pimpernel (London Films). If there is anything better suited to the cinema than the spectacle of a guillotine, dripping with blood and buzzing up & down like a sewing machine, it is the spectacle of Leslie Howard in 18th Century coattails, making gestures of polite affection toward Merle Oberon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

"As I sit in my own home," said the King-Emperor from Sandringham Hall. "I am thinking of the great multitude who are listening to my voice. ... I send a special greeting to the people of my dominions overseas. ... If my voice reaches any of the peoples of India, let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Birthday (by Aimee & Philip Stuart; Harmon & Ullman, producers). How does a sensitive child feel when her widowed mother decides to remarry? According to the playwrighting Stuarts, it depends on the character of the child. When Jennifer Lawrence (Peggy Wood) agrees to marry Sir John Corbett (Louis Calhern). her younger daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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