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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigating further, readers were relieved to find that no one had yet actually been burned to death. Nonetheless, the impression persisted that a gigantic holocaust was destroying most Los Angeles suburbs. It was reported that the homes of Richard Dix and Directors Sam Wood and Frank Lloyd were completely demolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your spirit will often come to hover about my work...

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

...opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Secret Sport | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Norman Mac-Owan) has been playing for seven months in London. In the make-believe State of Zagnira a young medical student inspires a whole troupe of her family and friends to declare their belief in God although they know that under their totalitarian government that declaration means death. They die. A timely subject, handled with some suspense but little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...surface, since the days of Awake and Sing! Odets and the Group have marched forward hand in hand. Actually Odets has most of the time carried the Group on his back. His have been the Group's only recent successful plays. When Paradise Lost was choking to death, Odets broke his pledge about not succumbing to Hollywood, went there at $2,500 a week, sent back money to keep the play and the Group going. Again, in the summer of 1937. when the Group existed in name only-its leading actors and its one remaining director were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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