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Word: cupidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipping magnate has fallen quite in love with his secretary Diane Lovering (Joan Crawford) but being a wise gentleman he decides to test her affection for him by sending her away for a while. Cruising to Buenos Aires the attractive Diane meets Michael Brady (Clark Gable) and this time Cupid's aim is sure. However Diane realizes Field's dependence upon her and returns to marry him. Her life with Field only serves to sharpen her realization of her love for Brady and after a tremendous struggle within herself she is finally saved by the generous defection of Field from...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

Determined to go down in history as the Cupid of the Age, Benito Mussolini last week started firing wifeless mayors. Beginning alphabetically with Alessandria Province he appointed married men to replace the bachelor mayors of several towns ending in "o." Next day the last bachelor in Il Duce's Cabinet, elegant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, hastily married at Trieste a widow with two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Birth Boost | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Birth Boost | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beauty's Bones | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Save for the conscientious Nudist, the forbidden publications were all smut sheets, compendiums of "art studies'' bearing such titles as Wild Cherries, Cupid's Capers, Hollywood Squawks. Heretofore the sale of questionable magazines in New York has been combated with the vague threat of criminal prosecution. But austere little Mayor La Guardia has new ways of doing things. His commissioner of licenses simply announced that anyone in his jurisdiction who was caught selling dirty publications would be put out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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