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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt last week was busily preparing for the visit next month of the 18-year-old Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpur Mohammed Reza, son of strong-willed Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, whose marriage to hazel-eyed, black-haired, 17-year-old Princess Fawziya, eldest sister of boy-King Farouk will take place this spring. At last reports the wedding date had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Love Match | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Summoned by Regent Horthy to succeed Dr. Imredy was 60-year-old Count Paul Teleki, Hungary's Boy Scout leader, a Catholic Transylvanian nobleman, an expert geographer and member of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. Notable it was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Embarrassing Discovery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

When we come to the guard positions, there are a couple of lads who rate second to none on the squad as far as natural ability is concerned. Ed Buckley from the iron range country of Minnesota and All-American Elk Club boy Bud Finnegan are a pretty good answer to any coach's prayer. They have had little relief in the backcourt positions mainly because they have not needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

First requisite of a picture with a moral is that it make its moral seem important. Second is that it make its moral seem :rue. Boy Slaves fails in truth because its bad characters are not human but monstrous. ". . . one-third of a nation" fails in importance because its characters do not seem worth bothering about. And in addition to being inherently feeble, both pictures suffer from amateurish acting, writing and direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Hollywood often wastes superb treatment on worthless themes, sometimes miserably botches good themes. Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are likely to discourage Hollywood from tackling like matters, for if these pictures are financial failures, producers will blame it on the material rather than their methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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