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Word: exoticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Mercédès-Benz rear-engine car (see cut p. 33) is delivered in Manhattan for $2,175. Also on sale last week was the large Mercédès with supercharger and promised speed of 110 m.p.h., at $14,000. No French, Italian, Czechoslovak or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

To the average U. S. citizen, the wild boar is an exotic hog who lives in the Indian marshes and whose life is made miserable by handsome Bengal Lancers pursuing him with spears. This month in the rugged Great Smoky Mountains of southeastern Tennessee in Cherokee National Forest, a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Tennessee Boar Hunt | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

In As You Like It, Shakespeare exhibited perhaps more spectacularly than any where else that nonchalant contempt for probability which cinemaddicts, trained in an easier school, find so difficult to accept. However this may militate against the picture's monetary value, it is of frequent assistance to its star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

The principal surprise is Joan Blondell as an exotic lady who is backing shows to utilize publicity she got by shooting her husband. In gorgeous negligees she spends her time pursuing Randall, moping about her subconscious, and uttering lines like "Gentlemen, no X-rays. I'm not well enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

-On first seeing this name in dispatches, many U. S. rewrite men and columnists jumped to conclusions, tagged Deputy Dolores "beautiful," "exotic." She is a plain, middle-aged ex-laun-dress of cyclonic violence who insists upon wearing "widow's weeds" although her husband is alive. What Spaniards call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Long Live Dynamite! | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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