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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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My Name Is Aquilon (adapted from the French of Jean Pierre Aumont by Philip Barry; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a cocky, penniless young Parisian (Jean Pierre Aumont) with a romantic need, and a remunerative knack, for telling lies. He lands a job with a high-toned black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

The most familiar thing about this picture is its stars, who may have put in too many years as models of romantic discomfiture. The film's manufacturers readily admit this possibility by allowing a bobby-soxer to surrender a park bench to Miss Colbert and Mr. MacMurray with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

The holiday was later saved from obscurity by romantic poets of the Renaissance. Recalling the practice of Roman bachelors of picking their dates for the day by drawing the names of maidens out of an urn, the poets somehow saw an excuse to deliver lace-splattered declarations to the lovers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prim Valentine's Day Faces College, but Romans Reveled | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Stuffed with romantic dreams of knightly prowess, passionately devoted to guns, swords and murder stories, young Doyle entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876. Here, he fell under the spell of the man without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prefabrication of Holmes | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

On Stage, with its own pleasantly romantic, stage-struck air, helps to explain why show business, in good times or bad, retains its .own peculiar brand of glamor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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