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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Ministers of British Dominions cabled to Neville Chamberlain their Cabinets' warmest congratulations. The British Labor movement, never militantly class-conscious and just plain anxious not to fight, was this week-as usual-the despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Nobel? Shameful? | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

In The Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of An Englishman | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

THE GENERAL'S LADY-Esther Forbes- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Adulteress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Esther Forbes's four novels (O Genteel Lady!, Paradise, etc.) have been full of romantic literary tricks. In spite of this they have been eminently successful in drawing a persuasive picture of colonial New England. Descended from pioneer Massachusetts stock, saturated from childhood with tales of colonial history told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Adulteress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

The General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Adulteress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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