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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pert, jaunty, ingenious, fast as a pickpocket's fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

If radio did nothing to minimize the European crisis, however, in the U. S. the networks did a bang-up job of bringing the throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crisis Credit | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

If I Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Comparative freedom in the matter of selecting courses and beginning concentration in the Freshman year was granted in 1934. The word gradually got around to Freshman advisers with results that this year amount to a crisis. The regimentation that previously compelled Yardlings to take several courses they cared nothing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Walter Huston, in the role of Stuyvesant, superb actor that he is, finds himself way over his head without a singing voice. The love interest is carried adequately, but no more than that, by Jean Madden and Richard Kollmar; the script gives them nothing to do, and Mr. Kollmar faces...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

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