Search Details

Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Said the Times: "It seems that the pregnant throbbing with which the romantic writers made such a play was not so very pregnant after all. Its eerie rhythm is not in fact relayed from campfire to campfire, nor does its sullen tattoo . . . disseminate throughout half a continent between dawn and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Unpregnant Drums | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Embellished Waltz | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

What no one-including Bargy, her husband and her friends-was prepared for was the astonishingly tender look which TV's normally harsh eye gives Jeanne at the piano. A tall, earnest girl with no pretensions to beauty, Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Fill-in | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

For St. Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ in the Kitchen | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Broadway Matinee Idol Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, 57, had something new to put him farther ahead of the theater's other romantic leads: his first grandchild, a boy, born to his daughter, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Claudia Pinza, 24.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next