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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is impractical because, by barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTOLERANCE | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

It is the authors' fond hope, in portraying such girlish fun, "to capture the spirit of New York's glittering and legendary years." To their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

For plot, Henry IV poses the cool Hal against the fiery Hotspur; but for theme it poses Hotspur against Falstaff, contrasting on a mighty scale the romantic and realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old Play in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

"Turner's Romantic Visions of Switzerland" will be the topic of a free, public lecture at Harvard University tomorrow afternoon by Paul John Ganz, professor of Art History at the University of Basel, given at the Fogg Museum of Art at 5 o'clock.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ganz Gives Lecture | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major (London Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Best recording to date of a great Romantic symphony.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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