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Word: gorings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young duchess who marries her steward, only to be persecuted and finally strangled to death at the command of her disapproving brothers, The Duchess of Malfi. swirls with the dark, cruel, guilty emotions of the Elizabethan theatre. Its splendid imaginativeness, its impassioned poetry, lift it above mere violence and gore. But it is horrifying rather than terrifying: there is so much bloodshed at the end it is impossible to keep stabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

RICHARD T. GORE Ithaca, N. Y. Just as falcons will be new and fresh when hunting rifles are forgotten by all save arms collectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...pervasive aroma of bitter hatred drifts through the whole picture, seeping deeper and deeper into the characters until, psychologically speaking, the sets are covered with the groaning bodies of the wounded. Perhaps the mental gore is overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain on the acting abilities of even the Misses Davis and Hopkins. Yet the conflict of their two vivid personalities--the essence of the plot--is basically so well presented that the foibles of direction and script-writing are subordinate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Tables will be placed on the lawn near Gore Hall and the orchestra will play under the stars against red drapery, Robert J. Glaser '40, chairman of the dance committee announced. He said tickets will be on sale at the box office during the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Dance Held In Gore Courtyard Tonight | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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