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Word: naivet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are actually people in Germany who believe the bank note press has lost its terror because, thanks to foreign exchange control, its consequences cannot be read in the daily dollar quotation. It is difficult to discuss such naivet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Out Or In? | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...expression of befuddlement. He was a bewildered drunk in innumerable pictures before his ability got him, in Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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