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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Reed has brilliantly followed suit. As the emotional tensions mount, it is Felipe who hears, half hears, guesses at and finally misunderstands their meaning. When Mrs. Baines accidentally falls to her death, Felipe is certain that Baines has killed her; his lies to protect his friend all but cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Charley Gray, who grew up in a small town which hears a striking similarity to Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a junior executive in a staid old New York bank. During a critical week in his life, when the turning-point of his career in the shape of a possible vice-presidency...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

With this sentence, Franz Kafka begins The Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tormented Soul | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

The extraordinary depth and quality of this film render a coldly anylitical review impossible. Although it also has a masterful plot, perhaps the finest parts of "Grand Illusion" are a few individual scenes. For instance, on the eve of a German victory celebration, the prisoners give a revue and invite...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Until it hears of new inner sanctums around Boston, the group is simply reading about spooks. Members have access to special Widener stacks, where they spend several days translating old German and Spanish writings. The manuscripts explain every phase of ghostdom--how to hold black mass, how to catch a...

Author: By John J. Back, | Title: 'Spooks Club' Will Travel South to Find a Ghost | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

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