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Word: reigning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modernist Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who excites his following by making his concave surfaces convex and his convex surfaces concave, proposed to erect a great statue of great Jew Moses. Said he: "Ever since the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror, I have been thinking of a figure that would represent justice. . . . In Moses, I believe we have that figure! He changed the laws of life for the Jews, and through the Jews for humanity! In my figure of Moses, the distressed of all religions may find a reaffirmation of their faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: We Are Wanderers | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...20th Century the legend of Victoria's reign has an inexhaustible fascination. As Victoria the Great re-created its political turmoils, so Sixty Glorious Years re-creates the calmly splendid pageant of its great days with the dignity they deserve. Good sequence: Victoria giving her blessing to the betrothal of her eldest daughter and Prince Frederick William of Prussia-whose son is Germany's ex-Kaiser. Submarine Patrol (Twentieth Century-Fox) shows the U. S. Navy in a strange new light. Heretofore seen on the screen as background for Dick Powell's singing, James Cagney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...monetary obligations. The present Hitler imposition of a $400,000,00 "fine" on the German Jews is a recrimination seldom paralleled in peace-time history. Of war indemnity proportions, this "fine" represents a persecution of such concentrated and vicious nature as to arouse world-wide condemnation. Enforced by a reign of terror reported second only to that of the French Revolution, the Nazi demands show a desire to return the Jewish people to the days of the Ghetto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADOLF PRESENTS HIS BILL | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Sherman, after those Coleman are Plunkett around, they' 11 Gluect for Marcy, but Hallett all, Hamity will reign Hafter the Valorz clash. Then forward Howe for Virginia who'll also get the Gates for Us Clubbe...

Author: By H. FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: HOWARD PICK THE WINDY CITY WHEN HUEY STICKS WITH REES | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

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