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Word: lovely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Troy town, city famous in antiquity, fell victim to two of the prime sins of society and perished. The sins, paradoxically, were love and jealousy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music of Stravinsky he is unenthusiastic, finds extreme Modernist Schonberg "unsympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Finland's King | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth two in the distant Alps and Pianist Noble to boot, wins the sweepstakes for the castle Boots (Moppet Harry Watson), who had been playing the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Century-Fox). The 45 members of the Spear and Gun Club draw lots to decide which of them is to make a home for Cinemoppet Jane Withers. Jane, chunkily healthful, insufferably precocious, tries to smuggle a chimpanzee into Manhattan, demurs at singing and dancing lessons, straightens out another puppy love life. Redeeming feature: the dancing Hartmans, disguised as The Marvelous McCoys, adding ventriloquism to their repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Love I'm After (Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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