Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Macdonald, a Scottish Presbyterian best known for his Princess & Curdie and other children's fairy tales. In the introduction to his recent anthology of Macdonald's work (TIME, June 2), Lewis confesses the importance of that day's purchase: "I had already been waist-deep in Romanticism; and likely enough, at any moment, to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantasies was romantic enough in all conscience; but there was a difference...
The average U.S. man is 5 ft. 9 in. tall and weighs 158 Ibs. Pace Anita Loos, six out of ten prefer brunettes (a happy choice, since only 8% of U.S. women are natural blondes) and they think- although they are at least half responsible for it-that women get...
From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful...
Those who are thoroughly sick of Lassic and all the sentimental pictures about thoroughbreds will naturally be wary of this one about a Southern home steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The...
The secret was there for anyone who would listen. Around the little Hotel San Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike...