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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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You speak of the unusual lady who had the honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Excepting Germany and Russia, the Great Powers acted as if a State had been set up in Angers. They sent their diplomatic envoys, including U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the Philadelphia socialite who was bombed out of Poland with such éclat. He promptly rented the Ch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

In conclusions the historian felt that rather than adopt a hard set program we should "develop a healthy attitude of scepticism." Americans are too often inclined, he felt, "to be romantic in their attitudes toward the old world."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Interests Jeopardized it U. S. Intervenes in Europe's War, McKay Warns | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

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