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Word: melodrama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Noose?Melodrama with many tears, about a boy who shot for Mother's honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Fog?Mystery melodrama aboard ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception of the plot, is so skillfully contrived as to come off amid real suspense. Altogether a fine technical performance by an author who pretends only to melodrama but achieves something more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...Marshal is ill and will see no one," said a servant, closing the door firmly in the Vice Premier's face. As usual, Josef Pilsudski, sly possum, was playing dead. Five minutes later he received an old friend, Minister of Posts Medzinski. Together they arranged the morrow's little melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Possum-in-the-box | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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