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Word: excerpt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left a letter to Sheriff Blackburn with a return address, "Undertaker's Office, Powell, Wyo." Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...route to Hollywood to make his first U. S. picture for Producer David Selznick, pudgy British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes) stopped off to lecture Yale drama students in cinemanufacture. Excerpt: "Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or 'whodunit' picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Added this week to the union musicomedy Pins and Needles (TIME, Dec. 20, 1937, et seq.) was a peace skit called Papa Lewis, Mama Green. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Time for Petting | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Montgomery prays extempore, never repeats himself. Excerpt from one of his prayers: "Father in Heaven, free our understanding from all fatal errors and release our souls from the clogging and binding fetters of sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Capitol Prayers | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota Packer George A. Hormel, whose firm has net sales of $56,900,000 a year. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Pie from the Sky | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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