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Word: huntly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Seductive Asylum | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...formidable new political stature of Martin Dies who, explaining why he had attacked Cabinet members (Perkins, Hopkins, Ickes), said it was because, after refusing to cooperate in his Red hunt, they had attacked him, an agent of the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Idiot's Delight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Producer Hunt Stromberg's version of the play in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: j. The New Pictures | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Over two years of exploratory conferences between University officers and the faculty of the Government and Economics departments have preceded the School's opening. The first actual experimental work was carried on last fall when the School was opened to a few student's with Hunt Hall as temporary quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer Graduate Center Will Open for Classes Next Monday | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee will shortly seek more funds. One way to get them, observers wisecracked after last week's hearings, would be to charge businessmen for the privilege of testifying. No witch-hunt, the hearings turned into a sounding board with advertising value for a number of industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Sounding Board | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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