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Word: lightheartedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Come the Clowns (by Philip Barry; produced by Eddie Dowling) is not, as the title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Funny? | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

For the doubtful pleasure of seeing these two second-raters in last week's "grudge fight" at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Papa Baer Did | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

But Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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