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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piccadilly Jim (Metro -Goldwyn - Mayer). When Caricaturist Jim Crocker (Robert Montgomery) hears Ann (Madge Evans), a U. S. beauty who enthralled him in a London bar, remark that she is going for a morning canter, he appears on the bridle trail in full-dress clothes, mounted upon a cart horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

To a physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Pressure: 10¢ | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Hero of the tale is Kassner, a Communist intellectual, an important party organizer, who has just been arrested by the Nazis. He has false identification papers, and luckily does not much resemble the photograph of himself his captors compare him with. But they suspect him of being Kassner, and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comrades' Fate | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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