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Word: romanticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Honeymoon | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Spinster Dickinson War-nursed all over what is now Yugoslavia. She shares the enthusiasm of hundreds of Britons, Germans and Americans who have discovered that rustic Yugoslavia, cheap, romantic and wildly beautiful, would be a vacation Eden, if only the food were not so coarse, the sheets so grey, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pioneers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Married-Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 36, journalist and onetime publisher; and Mrs. Helen Varner Anderson 26, of Clarksburg, W. Va.; in Albuquerque N. Mex. where they met three years ago and whither they returned "because it seemed more romantic." Twice before has Journalist Vanderbilt been married: to Rachel Littleton of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Author Breuer compares modern love to a nickel-in-the-slot piano: "Sad and twanging and uneven and the old sacred chords breaking through." This should be fair warning to readers who like a more classical-romantic tune. Memory of Love is an ambitious attempt to transpose the old sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daydream | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Follows a duel in the best early Fairbanks manner between O'Flynn and his sweetheart's treacherous fiance, the siege of Orange's Castle Knockmore, discovery of the fabled treasure in Castle Famine. Best tunes in the lush musical accompaniment to all these romantic doings: "Child of Erin," "The Throb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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