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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike its regular musicales, the "Jinks" are held in secret and the guest list is limited. The festival is a series of musical entertainments, beginning with the ceremonious "Burial of Dull Care," ending with the "High Jinks" a musical play composed, staged, sung by members. Though the "High Jinks" are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bohemians | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

When he gets out of jail, Eddie decides to try the badger game. He has Ruby invite a married admirer to the apartment, plans to break in on the couple in time to practice blackmail. Instead, overcome by jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicomedies of the Week | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

What strikes modern readers of Genji most surprisingly is its up-to-date-ness. The psychological novel is apparently no modern invention after all. Formal, slow-moving, ceremoniously polite, Lady Murasaki's court romance is peopled by very human beings (some 800 in all). Hero is Prince Genji, illegitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genji Finished | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Jennie Gerhardt (Sylvia Sidney) is a girl whose chief characteristic is a pathetic gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

The old notion that a person who falls from a great height dies before striking the ground, was long ago exploded. But there remains room for curiosity about how it feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Four-Mile Fall | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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