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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hatton Sumners spoke to the District Attorneys on Democracy. To the Parole Conference he spoke tartly on crime* and passed on to speak even more tartly on Government spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back Talk | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...major award in the 110-foot Class and minor awards in the 70-and 54-foot Classes, we feel rather proud of being the only firm in the competition to have received more than one award. I have always thought Time unbiased, yet I find our name not even mentioned. Why not give credit where credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Although the here of "They Still Say No" lives in Lowell House and himself has political aspirations, Lewis denies that the novel is "even as autobiographical as most first novels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wells Lewis Plans Political Career; Denies First Novel Is Autobiography | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...amazingly daring choice of plot in these days of Hays, "Wuthering Heights" is unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

...Remember the Maine" is distinctly inferior to Walter Millis's classic exposition, but such a statement does not imply complete condemnation of Mr. Mason's book. Mr. Mason has written in a pleasing, colorful style, and on one point he is even superior to Millis as a creator of atmospheric background for the United States' imperialistic adventure. He avoids the harsh, extreme one-sidedness of the earlier author, who in general seems to have felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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