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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Harvey in Character

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Left then to choose between judges sitting hundreds of miles from Washington and actual firsthand participants in the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt chose the group he trusted best, eliminated the judges from consideration. Then it was: Reed, Minton or Black? Black, Minton or Reed? Stanley Reed has been a stanch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Nominee No. 93 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Worrier. No other actor in Hollywood worries so much about his work as Paul Muni. He believes that in order to give a fine performance he must hypnotize himself into the mood of the role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

"The story of Troy, now dispersed in mocking legend," says Author Riding, "was the first tight knot that history made in time." Whether or not her unraveling of that knot and its ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Troy | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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