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Word: restful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been protests from daughters of G. A. R. veterans. But David Selznick was not worried. The advantage of film ing two great legends in one picture was that he had two great pictures - a sure fire Rebel-rouser for the South, a sure fire love story for the rest of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Trade centre turnover and the Federal Reserve Board production index again moved roughly parallel during the next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased rising; then the sudden impact of war sent it zooming skyward to a November peak (preliminary estimate: 125, well above its recovery high, just equaling its all-time 1929 peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Nearest approach in The Cosmological Eye to Miller's cumulative power is a nightmare section building up to a bloody, fecund millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its often funny short pieces are as mild compared to the two novels as they are wild, and fresh, relative to the bulk-and much of the best-of U. S. writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Suits left Stillman to get married and "to do some law". Yesterday he was ordered back to Stillman by the Hygiene Department for another rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVE'S LABOR LOST AGAIN AS SUITS RETURNS TO SICK-BAY | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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