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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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SINCE Prescott first published his history, the conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez has ranked with the victories of Lord Clive in India as one of the most amazing and courageous of human exploits, by which vast territories, riches, and populations have been subjugated to the iron will of a...

Author: By L. K., | Title: Bold Conquistadores | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

Many years of Mme. de Stael's life were spent in various European countries where her sparkling salons were centers of revolt against the oppression of French formalism in the arts. She was not too romantic, however, to forget her financial interests, and a large part of her correspondence with...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: Economic and Social Life in America | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

To find and develop the hidden gifts of childhood is the purpose of modern creative education, according to Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University. Education, he feels, should preserve and enrich the original endowments of the child, rather than crushing these innate talents under the heavy weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CULT OF THE CHILD | 3/11/1931 | See Source »

The Author? William Faulkner, 34, small, dark, of a distinguished Southern family (Great-grandfather William Faulk ner wrote the once famed romantic novel, The White Rose of Memphis'), lives in Oxford, Miss. During the War he served as lieutenant in the Canadian Flying Corps, crashed once, hurt his foot. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

A successfully romantic poet nearly alienates the affections of his wide audience by failing to die young, at the appropriate zenith; finally realizing what is required of him he announces his death, spends the rest of his life in hiding.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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