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Word: edens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Lindsay has tacked a tale that should tickle many readers. His profuse and enthusiastically unconventional drawings of wilder & wilder life on his desert island share the satirical realism of his sharply moraled tale. What would really happen to three men and a girl cast up together in an Eden enforced? There have been plenty of guesses; Author Lindsay's is as good as any, more entertaining than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Isle, Inc. | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Almost everyone has been either the original play which started its run in 1928, or the movie, or read Eden Ferber's book, but seldom has a revival proved as popular as this. Elaborate almost to the point of excess the scenes, the consumes and the choruses are all blended to give the impression of a great spectacle. To call "Show Boat" a musical comedy would be far from conveying a definition, as to call "Green Pasture" a play. It is not puny, like many plays of its type. It combines all the sentiment and carefully unwinding plots...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/25/1932 | See Source »

...Authorities dispute the exact location but most agree that "Eden" was somewhere in what is now Irak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Kingdom Freed | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...pleasant to recall," said British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, "that the new League member encloses within its boundaries the place which was once the Garden of Eden* as well as Bagdad of the immortal 'Arabian Nights.'" Sir John did not mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Kingdom Freed | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...ever there was a Socialist Garden of Eden it was the Free State of Prussia from 1920 until this year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Partitioning Prussia | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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