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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What gave the story its clear and happy atmosphere of romance was the engaging personality of the Groom. "Yes," he smiled, "I proposed by telephone last summer." All kinds of people have entered Fowler McCormick's heterogeneous life and he remains a romantic. When very young he intimately associated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Names in the News | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Brooks and Upton are the authors of the verses accompanying the pictures. Written in loosely romantic iambic couplets, with not a little keenness of epigrammatic twist to the tail, the verses stand in satirical, if not salacious wit, with the slim volume of sonnets issued last year by a New...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Drippings From a Witch's Quill" to Appear in Book Form Next Week--Dedicated to Nephew of the Last of the White Witches | 6/2/1931 | See Source »

There is no more fascinating subject than modern physics. Science, always, since the days of Democritus and Lucretius, a field fertile to the romantic imagination, is more rational in its severity and yet more romantic in its doctrine and possibility than ever before. Philosophy, which Professor Whitehead has called the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INSUBSTANTIAL PAGEANT | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

MANY THOUSANDS GONE-John Peale Bishop-Scribner ($2.50).* Not only in biography but, more significantly, in fiction U. S. writers are more & more turning to U. S. subjects. And to a generation that is still scraping off the mud and blood of the War to End War the comparatively chivalrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairly Civil War | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

With few exceptions, the public has remained the dupe of widespread dishonesty in advertising. Sometimes the none too subtle flattery of "American intelligence" does the trick. In one instance the romantic suggestion that ginger ale "aged six months" rivals fine Sauterne and that other brands are as unwholesome as very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERVERTED PUBLICITY | 5/21/1931 | See Source »

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