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Word: cupidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Armed with machine-made sentiments of varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Hundred Men of Harvard To Burn Wires Today With Saccharine Last-Minute Valentines | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

Paying $2 for a license, Mr. Obadie took his fiancée up to the third floor. There they found an official seated at a desk under a dingy cupid. Whipping through the marriage service at top speed he pronounced them man & wife in less than a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manhattan Marriage | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist who took a stranger to her bed, thinking he was a famed cinemactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 18th Century Garb | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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