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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Lederer and Joan Bennett by the leading bundlers in this intelligent sparkling comedy that pokes fun at No England's blue laws of Revolutionary days. Leaderer, a violin-playing Hessics soldier deserts the English forces and turns up in Miss Bennett's barn milking a cow. He is taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MET | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

If there were a course of this type existent in each age, such as the Classical, Elizabethan, and Romantic eras, it would coordinate the work of the undergraduate. This would not knock out work in each division, of course; it would only knit closely together, the divergent knowledge which a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BODY WITHOUT BLOOD | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Boyle published a book at least a hundred years old. No copycat, she simply revealed the historical fact that she and her fellow-romanticists (Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner) have succeeded in bringing off a 20th Century Romantic Revival. Like their early 19th Century predecessors, they have rediscovered the romanticism of the neurotic. To a generation that discusses nightmares in daylight, the nightmare-stuff these writers handle seems the only thing that dreams are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Romantic | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

From the romantic era of the "Constitution" down to the present days, American naval construction has been rarely challenged by critical public opinion. Whatever opposition has threatened to thwart the Congressional program for more ships, the yellow press has attempted to rouse the passions of the public by pointing to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIEF FOR WAR | 11/15/1934 | See Source »

Wells's first marriage, when he was 25, was a failure from the start. A long romantic engagement did little to prepare either party for marital reality. Wells confesses that "quite soon" after his marriage he went to bed with his secretary, felt much better for it. When he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Persona Gratified | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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