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Word: romanticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Claire Ledoux, an international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Late in 1932 WXYZ's President George Washington Trendle got the idea that what he and radio needed was a William S. Hart of the air. Scripter Francis Striker, who had been grinding out a series called Warner Lester, Manhunter, concocted a story about a mysterious and gallant cowboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Death of the Ranger | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frederick Stock; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Meaty, romantic music, done to a turn and served with the proper helping of gravy, in one of the finest of Brahms recordings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Mayor Byrne, who likes to talk about Natchez' new tire factory, her ski-manufacturing plant, and her romantic sawmills, was out of town. On business.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Civil War in Natchez | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

For the next 20 years he told Americans things about themselves they had never quite understood before. After the first sensational impact of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), critics began to suggest that his characters were fantastic, that he was obsessed with sex, that his version of Ohio life was not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark and Lonely | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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