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Word: pense (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

"I pray that the poisonous pens of selfish interests and their hirelings which, since the primary elections, have dipped into the well of venom for the purpose of embarrassing and humiliating some of us folks chosen by the people shall run dry. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy's Panacea | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEIFETZ PLAYS FOR SCIENCE AS ANALYSER SPLITS SOUND | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Mr. Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

¶The animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Why Not? | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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