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Word: paged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the States broke Reporter Frost's front-page story. Next day the Times-Picayune followed suit. Fortnight later, Governor Leche resigned, and his Lieutenant Governor, Huey's brother Earl Long, took his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Four Wives (Warner Bros.) increases and multiplies the joys and sorrows of the four daughters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane and Gale Page) of old Music Master Lemp (Claude Rains) in a typical U. S. townlet. This time maternal instinct defeats the considerable ingenuity with which, in Four Daughters, Director Michael Curtiz managed to keep cinemaudiences straight about, and interested in, the doings of four leading characters in one picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Clisson et Eugénie, written shortly before the 26-year-old artillery officer, shabby, suffering from itch and malaria-appreciated only by a few of his colleagues-made his name by smashing a royalist coup in Paris on Oct. 4, 1795. Until now this fragmentary (13-page) romance was known only to bibliophiles through a sketch published by a Polish scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Novelist | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Satterlee family at Highland Falls on the Hudson in the '80s and '90s. He married Louisa Morgan, the eldest daughter, in 1900, and was a close friend and business aide of his father-in-law until his death in Rome in March 1913. Satterlee's 583-page book, now published after 26 years, is astonishingly complete, high-minded, reverent, and occasionally ingenuous or supercilious enough to transfix non-Union Club readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pip's Portrait | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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