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Word: clarissa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Clarissa Curtis Cantacuzene, 39, divorced wife of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Chicago socialite real-estate man, son of Grand Duke Nicholas' aide de camp, great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant; by her own hand (gas); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. I always do." Best novel to lose yourself in, according to the Stein taste: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Dwight Fiske's book, all the characters-except a preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Pays | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Mother, I am making Foard go on for aid. Can't move. God save us. Please help Foard marry Clarissa, he is your son now. Dad, I am dead-save mother." Clarissa is a girl in Lima, Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ph.D. | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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