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Word: maidens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar to mass production, the story of "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar to mass production, the story of "Impatient Maiden" make entertainment an almost...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Leading sociologists declare that the relations between man and woman in present civilization are undergoing a volte-face. We find this lesson enacted in "Impatient Maiden." The cynical and rather beautiful divorce-lawyer's secretary is asked in holy matrimony by a young hospital interne. She refuses to indulge in more than an extralegal mesalliance because her employer's many unhappy clients have embued her with a fear of marriage. Producers saw the novelty coincident to reversing the plot of the deserted girl. Abandoned by the honest young man, our maiden decides to play an age--old game with...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...mornings, two men shouted this invitation to each & every child they saw. They were members of New Bedford's Church of the Nazarene (a small sect placing great emphasis on revival and "holiness"), which was running a Sunday School attendance contest with the Church of the Nazarene in Maiden. Their method of proselyting was to lure young moppets into the truck with lollypops, trundle them off to church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lollypopularity | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lollypopularity | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Unlike her late husband, the Lady from Arkansas sits quietly in her rear-row Senate seat, is no floor-pacer, no caustic interjector. She has sat for four weeks without delivering her maiden speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arkansas Goes First | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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