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Word: heavensent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yet life isn't as grim as this sounds. We did meet our fellow officers at Soldiers Field, to practice for the Navy Day review--then, remember, the heavens wept, and we didn't march Navy Day after all--instead we went to class two extra hours in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creating A Ripple | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

In his middle years, Helleu maintained a small yacht, aboard which he used to receive the neurasthenic Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pleasing Paul | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

"I was terribly frightened. I heard the planes but could not see them. Then sud denly the sky became intensely bright. There were torrents of fire from the sky. It seemed as though vessels of flowing fire had been overturned in the heavens. Streams of fire reached the earth and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Devastated Dortmund | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Cabin In The Sky (M.G.M.) is an all-star Negro musical with handsome, luscious-voiced Lena Home (TIME, Jan. 4), Ethel Waters, "Rochester," Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Hall Johnson's singers. Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens. The Negroes are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Prologues and Premeers. From the start in Hollywood, Grauman concocted enormously successful madcapitalist "innovations." One of these was having movie stars make personal appearances. Another was the "prologue," the ancestor of today's stage show. The most famous and flamboyant was the "premeer"-the klieg-lighted, red-carpeted opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Back Where He Started | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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