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Word: romanticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Maestro Toscanini scooted onstage, music-lovers in the peanut galleries leaned over the rails to hiss the buzz-buzz in the parquet into silence. Then, in the still, warm, muggy air (two women in the crowded audience fainted), they listened for three hours to the romantic music of Poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paid in Full | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

A pox on you, Professor Tinbergen-and upon you, too, TIME ! Do you not know that there are still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Casbah (Universal-International). "Come with me to the Casbah" has become almost as solid a cliché, in American romantic kidding, as Mae West's "Come up and see me some time" used to be. The Casbah owes its popularity to Detective Ashelbe's tried & true romantic tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Louis Jouvet is the stern detective on the case and is, as always, excellent, stopping just short of underplaying. As Jenny's husband, the producers have cast another fine actor, Bernard Blier, who has the insolence to play the romantic lead with a bald head. Imagine. Other good performers are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jenny Lamour | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Sometimes World Without Visa trembles on the edge of ten-twent'-thirt' melodrama, sometimes it seems incongruously romantic in its motivations. But all such objections are ultimately swept aside by the power with which Malaquais has raised a verbal monument to the martyrdom of Europe.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of a World | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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