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Word: romanticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Alfred Cortot, piano ; orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli; Victor, 8 sides). Best recording to date of a romantic staple, by a prolific waxer of Chopiniana.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: August Records, Aug. 7, 193 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Like a good deal else in the Mussolini family life, there is no specific date for Edda's birth. She was said to be 19 at the time of her marriage; that would make her 28 or 29 now. It is virtually certain that Edda, whoever her mother was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady of the Axis | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

"1) Host made address. 2) Japanese newsman reply. 3) Chinese newsman reply reply. 4) Chinese prostitute sing a song. 5) Japanese prostitute gave some performance. 6) Everyone drank three cups. 7) Gen. Chi led to sing 2 military songs (composed by himself) the 1st one is to build an army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shoptalk | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The one writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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