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Word: romanticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is even a sudden and tragic suicide during the course of the evening which provides a lively and well-acted interlude to the comedy. The victim is a widely romantic Goethe-reader whom, I fear, Mr. Behrman will never translate from the Gallic.

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

That brought the house down. With a sly dig at Vice President Barkley's attentions to Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis, he added: "I am exceedingly glad that he is about to become a citizen of Missouri." The following day-after a side trip to Independence-Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Its playhouses and its audiences have been dwindling steadily for a generation, but Broadway likes to stake its survival on a romantic cliche: the theater is "the fabulous invalid" that never dies. By this summer the invalid had grown so feeble that a doctor was called in. For diagnosis and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Feeble Pulse | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Coosome Twosomes. Columnist Daly's busy day starts with a bubble bath and a double orange juice at 8 a.m., ends at the i a.m. curfew her mother usually succeeds in enforcing. Her column, seldom more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Solid Side | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). New series on "The Romantic Spirit."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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