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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from drowning and from his twisted view of life by the despised Miserable Sarah. He goes back to the house party, weary and wiser, to face the scorn of the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indirect Nightmare | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...indeed fundamental and all-controlling, presenting to the loyal members of such a party the duty of abstention from its evil courses and of applying such punishment and discipline as can only be inflicted by the defeat of a party that has so far forgotten its mission and its duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unhappy Has-Beens | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Retorted Treasurer Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Committee: "Only an evil mind could see anything improper in the performance. . . . We were all merry and the whole thing was done in a spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Like Champagne | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Suzy. Because Mutiny on the Bounty, an enormously long and expensive picture, was the No. 1 smash hit of last season, producers this season think that all long and expensive pictures will be hits. Length has another advantage in that it helps combat what producers call the "double bill evil." An additional reason for Suzy's length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected gradually rather than in short strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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