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Word: personent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Cocteau's Oedipus | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...Wife is also a fascinating guessing-game. Only by inference from the spoken lines can the audience know what the invisible characters are supposed to be saying. Thanks to Miss Skinner's powers of suggestion, Edna's husband, who never appears, seems as real as any person in the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Full-length Skinner | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Hopelessly behind at the half 29-8, the Yardlings never threatened the enemy Freshmen who were led by Bob Person with 26 points. Dan McSweeney topped the Yardling cagers with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS EDGE BRUINS IN LATE RALLY | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...Three years ahead is the most you can map out your work; the man who Freshmen who were led by Bob Person with 26 points. Dan McSweeney topped the Yardling cagers with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Jobs Obtained Through the Employment Office, Says Report | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder, cries out: "Oh! how I admire that man Hitler!" She was, said Kipling, "the most wonderful person I have ever met. ... It is outside all my experience, and of a type to which I know no duplicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother & Child | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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