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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the fresh salt breezes that blow over Bermuda's romantic coral sands, a medical student from Manhattan last week found his heart hopelessly swaddled in British red tape. He was Levon Abel Akopiantz, on his way home from Lisbon aboard the famed Excalibur. During the long voyage westward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Levon's Love Letter | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Minds on Martinique | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Third answer is increased breeding. Said a curator: "It's about time the animals themselves pitch in and help." Though the St. Louis and Chicago zoos have long been enthusiastic animal breeders, many other U.S. zoos have felt it was somehow indelicate to encourage procreation among their beasts. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottleneck in Giraffes | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Mozart: Concerto in D Minor (K. 466) for Piano and Orchestra (Rochester Philharmonic with José Iturbi; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). Late Mozart with plenty of Romantic sap. The Rochester Philharmonic, which started recording less than a year ago, again proves it is an outfit to be reckoned with. Pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: August Records | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Eccentrics | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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