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Word: cunningness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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France. "I believe that throughout the entire world there is today not the slightest doubt that the French people did not want war and that the French people would sooner have peace today than tomorrow, and that this war was forced upon them with unparalleled cunning, cynicism, and brutality on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Full Force | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Jamaica Inn (Mayflower). Fans of Director Alfred Hitchcock had a surprise in store for them when they got the wrappings off this Hitchcock picture. They found it was no Hitchcock but an authentic Laughton. Scarcely a shot in the whole picture revealed the famed British director's old mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Wilson was right. It was a war to make the world safe for democracy. But the war was never finished. It still has to be fought till one side or the other is licked. . . . There is no mercy in the philosophy of those who believe that the natural law that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Sirs: Friday evening I read TIME'S characterization, "aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch" [TIME, Aug. 21]. Saturday afternoon I met Mr. Baruch in the park of Saratoga Spa (where he has been for the past three weeks), gay over his physicians' discharge of him as completely cured...

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

As a Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-brew | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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