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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But if I don't, dear Santa Claus,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ A new translation, fully competent, lucid and unpretentious, of the French Poet Rimbaud's famed Season in Hell. Translator Delmore Schwartz kept in English all that dispassionate English can keep of Rimbaud's poetry-everything, that is, but the essential harshness and resonance of the original.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Tropic of Cancer was a dizzying personal record of sexual adventure, straycat poverty and street wanderings in Paris, formless and plotless in any classical sense, savagely anti-artistic. Its end-of-the-rope eloquence was, however, apprentice work compared with Tropic of Capricorn, which deals with Miller's jobholding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Tar Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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