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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Miss Thompson, had quaked with fear lest Nazi Germany had swallowed Austria, were last week highly delighted to hear Austria in the person of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg talking back to Adolf Hitler. Through a cheering crowd of 40,000 Viennese, Schuschnigg drove to the Austrian Diet to deliver a speech which made him the hero of Central Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Civil War? | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Continent | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Today is the last day upon which undergraduates may change (drop or add) courses beginning in the second half year without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room C. University Hall, before 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEADLINE | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...really think that TIME has something that no other news organ has. Brief, succinct write-ups. Clarified international situations that the average person finds hard to grasp from sometimes conflicting newspaper reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Affairs of Maupassant (Panta Films), in presuming to bring to fervent consummation a liaison that was really carried on entirely by mail between Guy de Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff, makes Maupassant out something of a popinjay, shows Marie, in the person of Lili Darvas (wife of Ferenc Molnar), as a luscious morsel even when she is dying a Camille-like death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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