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Word: cunningness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape. Four years of sulking in his tent have robbed the Rice who wrote The Adding Machine, Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law of all his old cunning, power, punch. American Landscape tells of the head of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

One of the first modern manikins on Fifth Avenue was designed for Saks's veteran Display Director Sidney Ring by the noted sculptor, Alexander Archipenko. There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Avenue Art | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Just before England Expects Every American To Do His Duty was published in England, the English Speaking Union called a private meeting which began with a discussion of the book, developed into an argument about Anthony Eden's looks. Rothermere papers printed Mr. Howe's picture, an alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Howe y. England | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

The Friends. Chief insider in the 'Beaverbrook set" is fat, bland, arrogant Valentine Edward Charles (''Val") Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, who is regarded in London as an English Walter Winchell, gets $25,000 a year for turning out a half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Since 1925, 70-year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Throwback | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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