Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The editor who wrote your story of Emden (TIME, Oct. 16) drew freely on his imagination, particularly in respect to the escape of the crew on board the Ayesha. Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mikke's account in his book Ayesha relates that the landing force of approximately 56 men...
Had the Mahatma protested less, the art world would almost certainly have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge...
But in his impetuous, romantic rise from the little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with...
Once upon a time-as who over 21 doesn't remember?-there was a movie director named Rex Ingram. A very romantic director he was. Himself as handsome as a movie star, he was born in Dublin, had been a New Haven dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of...