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Word: roberte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...sign language. Addie Belle gave small thought to her own hollow cheeks and stringy hair but she brooded long over the bowed legs of her pretty, undernourished child. Several months ago she summoned all her courage and fled with six-year-old Annabelle to the office of Dr. Robert Lemon Eastman. Trembling with fear, she pointed to Annabelle's legs, indicated that she wanted Dr. Eastman to straighten them. The surprised physician examined the child, later went to Columbus to tell psychologists at Ohio State University about the remarkable pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Addle Belle & Annabelle | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Genial General Robert E. Wood explained Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s similar plan. Its employe fund now holds $42,600,000 worth of securities, all Sears, Roebuck stock, making the employe fund the largest single interest in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: To Share or Not to Share? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Howe y. England | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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