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Word: lent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...With the opportune aid of the calendar clearing the decks for his Supreme Court fight, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their Army & Navy reception ushering in Lent, closed season on social events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Batter Up | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...beautiful lady lent enchantment to the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

...began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped himself during the winter months. But Artist Twok does not use the primitive picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first patron. Credit chiefly belongs to a Mrs. Oliver Weaver, wife of a public utilities executive in Nome, who has been circulating and selling original Twoks for several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Twok | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...with a portrait of his half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Copley Bicentennial | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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