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Word: emotionalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two schools of thought and proposed action. One, headed by the U. S., seeks to exclude major political issues, tries to keep the Conference and its permanent agency* in a rut of cumulative, bureaucratic progress: pamphlets . . . scholarships . . lectures infinitudes of supplemental Pan-American societies . . . emotion . . . soft soap. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pan-America | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

For the origins of the popular fear concerning Friday the thirteenth one would probably be forced to delve into the Sanskrit or worse. Suffice to say that it is doubtless the most prevalent example of universal phobia in the world. Even minds otherwise destitute of primitive prejudices based on fears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOOMSDAY | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

(3 of 3) uncle had married a young woman who was keeping all his wealth. Willi tried seeing her; she was, he discovered, a woman he had once paid for spending a night with him. Nonetheless, he asked her for the sum he needed so badly; she came to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daybreak | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

"Emotion," Professor Boring, Emerson D.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

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