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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from well selected epithets and a number of choice expressions and apt phrases than from comedy of situation. This type of humor is bound to pall at times, and it does in this play in the third act. What might be called the "heart of gold scene" is not good, and the "denouncement" is worse, but in such a criticism one tends toward carping...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Man's Burden | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Good academic standing in the University, and the completion of Physics B or C or the equivalent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND U.S. COMBINE TO OFFER AIRPLANE COURSE | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Good physical condition, including "excellent vision without glasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND U.S. COMBINE TO OFFER AIRPLANE COURSE | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Even the title, "Bachelor Mother," sounds good,--almost too good for the Hays Office. But it's really a false alarm. Ginger Rogers insists she found the baby and that makes it all right. The ensuing complications, involving a department store, a jitterbug contest, and David Niven, all add up to delightful fare, even for the most heavily armor-plated movie-goer. David Niven has climbed another rung towards a well-deserved stardom. Miss Rogers does a fine job, even though the shadows of Fred Astaire and such triumphs as "Top Hat" and "The Castles" still lurk wistfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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