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Word: ringlet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...joke improves with repetition -about the war with the Greeks which presently sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks off with this talisman, the Amazons' power over their men goes with it. The Amazon army surrenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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