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Word: comee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back to sanity without treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Likely reason for the ban on Look: it reprinted phony atrocity pictures of World War I to remind people how war spirit was whipped up. This might come under the head of reports "likely to prejudice the recruiting, training, discipline or administration . . . of His Majesty's forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week, after virtually deserting show rings for a year (while hobnobbing with Hollywood folk), Liz Whitney reappeared at Madison Square Garden. To the galleries' shouts of "Come on, Liz!" she rode four of her entries. But at week's end, no Whitney horse" had qualified for the championship final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Women | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...will come again-our marching song will come again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...audience was quite willing to believe it. When at long last the curtain rose on Dali's brand-new setting for the Venusberg Bacchanale scene from Wagner's Tannhäuser they saw what they had come for. At the back of the stage, before a punctured mountain on a windswept plain, an ossified swan spread 15-ft. wings. In and out of its ruptured, bony breast the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's ballerinas climbed like the maggoty stuffing of a decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Krafft-Ebing Follies | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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