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Word: musing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl pilgrim in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's Saint | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Homer's dogging muse is his blonde sweetheart, Fran, who "is sure I shall become a novelist of the Irving Bacheller type-which is exactly the goal at which I am aiming." When the next best-seller type appears, he aims at it ("I can learn much of style from David Grayson," he writes). In 1936, 30 years later, his aim is still waving around, but he hasn't fired a shot. He just goes on filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Late Mr. Zigler | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Muse's corpse is justled from her coffin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...merry monarch) in the Province of Carolina there came in 1733 a group of strolling players led by an efficient, talented actress remembered only as Monimia, the character she played for the eager Colonists in Otway's The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage. Interest in Monimia's muse was far greater than Charles Town's court house could accommodate, even at 40s. a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Oldest Theatre | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Double Features, and he too climbs the carpeted stairway to emerge from the dark onto the top of the world, follows the dancing spot of the flashlight to a seat, and settles back to laugh or cry with housewives and clerks under the spell of the Celluloid Muse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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