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Word: blanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed as blank verse is no reason for thinking that it actually is blank verse. Sometimes this casual prosiness is unintentionally comic, as when he makes a minor character think of Karen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light Without Heat | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...satisfying, lusty banging of fists. Miss Colleen Moore, handicapped by what is sometimes termed the "Come back stage," turns out an acceptable, occasionally an appealing version of the ambitions Mrs. Garner. Mr. Ralph Morgan is still Nicky Tear, however of a filling system. Helen Vincent is beautiful and blank...

Author: By J. M., | Title: "THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some good will there." Stiffly London papers reminded their readers that in Great Britain no member of the Royal Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...called last week at Brangwyn's studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual figure of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christ in a Skyscraper | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...very respectable middle class family" of German Jews, she was taken abroad at an early age, spent her youth in California and Baltimore. At Radcliffe she studied under Psychologist William James, was one of his star pupils. At the final examination in his course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel like writing an exam that day. Next day came a postcard from James saying: "I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel like that myself"; and giving her the highest mark in the class. At Johns Hopkins Medical School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stem's Way | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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