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Word: heavensent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During one of Sarah Bernhardt's many "farewell" tours he wrote: "To me in every role she is the Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hammond Speaks Again | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

On adults the effect was powerful; on the less mature it was staggering. Said one young spectator for publication: "It was all good. I can't remember." Lest the Big Show be beautified out of its hallowed form, in other acts Trainer Alfred Court presides over snarling panthers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Menagerie in Blue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Water covered the track at Santa Anita. It had rained all day Friday. On Saturday morning the heavens added three and a half inches more for good measure. At post time the sun broke through the murky clouds. Then it rained some more. Cash customers puddle-jumped their way to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Weather: Cold; Track: Wet | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. . . . The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. . . . The sky was red and angry, and overhead, making a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tourist in the War Zone | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Most spectacular hop-over was the leap of voluble, iron-whimmed Dorothy Thompson, who declared for Franklin D. Roosevelt. With womanly consideration she lunched with Mr. Willkie (whom Miss Thompson knows as Wendell) first, made it clear that she was coming out against him. A lengthy talk failed to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minds Made Up | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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