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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little worn at the edges," eh? It may interest TIME to know that in spite of supercilious critics there are thousands of music lovers and many big-league critics who rate Martinelli as the greatest of all tenors [TIME, July 3]. Caruso was never the "undisputed" supreme among the "chandelier-jigglers" either. Caruso's voice, though thrilling, certainly, was something like a trip hammer, and eventually busted his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...disciples of Moses' monotheism, know history and are hardly surprised at the symptoms of present society. Nonsurprising, but tragical indeed, is the lot of a perpetual scapegoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...with unlimited flow of every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Lurid Luren | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...publish 100 of them in 20 volumes this autumn, at $75 a set. No one was more surprised than serious, bespectacled Mr. Clark when NBC asked him to supervise production of nine Lost Plays, and comment on them during performance. Historian Clark hates the radio, says he did not know who Kate Smith was when his children lately asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prestige Programs | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...such celluloid researchers, Second Fiddle, which brings Sonja to Hollywood and wraps her in the toils of a publicity romance with Rudy Vallée-a scheme concocted by Pressagent Tyrone Power-will be full of delicious possibilities. For, as Sonja's fans well know, the liveliest Hollywood buzz-buzz of 1937 concerned her studio romance with Tyrone Power, cooked up by no pressagent but by smart little Darryl Zanuck himself. Actually, Second Fiddle is no more of a personal history than any other Henie movie. Like its predecessors, it is an artfully contrived showcase for the display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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