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Word: exoticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the evening to Boston to see Cornell in "The Wingless Victory," a warm breeze from the South Seas in her sarong and suffering the inevitable fate of the exotic flower trampled down under the heavy hoof of cold New England. That talented lady must appear Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

This smoothly unfolded comedy is notable in only one respect: It is the U. S. debut of a 20-year-old, five-foot-three, 105-lb. Viennese girl with grey eyes and brown hair, using the name Luli Deste. Thunder in the City gives her opportunity to demonstrate that these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

"You cannot graft them on our system any more than you can graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Siberian Crab Apple | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

"The Yellow Cruise" is the acme of the travelogue. This pictorial account of the third Citroen-Haardt-Audouin-Dubreuil Asiatic Expedition is not content to edify with its splendid scenes of the exotic, but succeeds in giving to the collection a unity and a thrilling dramatic punch, involving both terror...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

(Warner Bros.). Instead of Arabia or Becky Sharp, Producer Hal Wallis chose the more realistic subject of the Northwest woods and the logging industry for this Technicolor. Cast, technical crew, Director William Keighley and Red Spierling, logging superintendent of the Crown Willamette Paper Co., whose crew set a world'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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