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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Soviet musical authorities, who had suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Russia | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Everyone, deep down inside, wishes he could swashbuckle. It's probably something left over from childhood, when we thumbed Howard Pyle's "Book of Pirates," and imagined ourselves standing on the poop-deck, armed to the teeth. The next best thing, of course, is watching somebody else do it. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

Having discovered the sparking skates of Sonja Henje, Twentieth-Century Fox has lately been putting the old-fashioned musical on ice-- something which, in more than one sense, is a splendid idea. Unfortunately for "Happy Landing," Miss Henie's latest vehicle, the story calls for too much of the old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Built around the time-honored angle of home versus career, the story concerns a very loving couple who go through the usual round of quarrels, separations, kindly old uncles trying to intervene, and inevitable reconciliations--brought about this time by a coming blessed event. Any romantic school girl knows it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

But scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wake of the Beagle | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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