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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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One person who still remembered Sparks Rogers' heroism was his good-natured new chief, Lieutenant Vincent Doyle, also a retired ship radio operator. The Doyles and Rogerses struck up a warm friendship. When Lieutenant Doyle's little daughter was taken ill, the lieutenant lunched every day with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Pretty Swell | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Last month was a big one in Author De Voto's career. His publishers, Little, Brown, brought out a brief, uncritical biographical study by Garrett Mattingly.* The Saturday Review of Literature, confirming recent Manhattan literary gossip, announced his resignation "to give his time to writing and literary research." His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Angry Editor | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

In Minnesota, among the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, rich & poor alike, he found a thrifty, hardworking, hospitable, good-natured people, whose few so-called Reds were only followers of peaceable Norman Thomas. His major discovery was that "they are like electric cookstoves and concert violinists. They get hot slowly . . . but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Conglomerate | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Leslie Banks is manly, earnest, and warm as the advocate of democracy. Theodore Newton is as grim, as honest, and as frigid as the role of the communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

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