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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Me k and Kenneth Roberts may not agree on the history of the westward movement, but they can both make it mighty interesting. Harvard's lecture-hall Leatherstocking brings it to life with words alone, but in "Northwest Passage," now at Loew's State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/24/1940 | See Source »

When the scripting team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker announced that it would film Swiss Family Robinson as its first fling at producing, story-starved Hollywood gasped with admiration, wondered why Johann Rudolf Wyss's century-old best-seller had been overlooked so long. The wonder has abated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Frankly, Vag was up a tree. Four thousand romantic souls were crowded around the "Greeting Card" counter in most unromantic proximity, and there was an imminent danger that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

THE CRADLE BUILDER-Walter Schoenstedt-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The man in this young German emigre's novel is a young German emigre, his wife, a Vermont girl, the-setting. Manhattan's Yorkville (German district) and an upstate farm. Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

THE DARK STAR-March Cost-Knopf ($2.50). March Cost manipulates her flashbacks gracefully to trace the 18-year relationship between Actor Eden Loring and Actress Fanny Wreath; it takes just a week's neatly woven action and reminiscence to bring their lives to a romantic head. Novels about theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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