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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the guide, all Harvard men are not as desirable as the best of them, for there is another species "not the type one is apt to meet on a southern cruise," who is not so much the ladies' man, and who lacks the romantic danger of the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Beware if Your Friend Is a Harvard Man," Warns Planned Radcliffe Guide | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Washington Allston, an early U. S. cosmopolitan who spent four years in Rome, became acquainted with Wordsworth and Coleridge, painted powerful romantic landscapes, gradually atrophied in Boston.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Landscapes | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Professional ornithologists and professional bird painters have been inclined to look down their noses at his work. They point out his anatomical inaccuracies: his horned owl represented with three rather than two toes forward. They criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brasher's Birds | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

A better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

In U. S. concert halls Delius' music was always more talked about than heard. Even those U. S. concertgoers who knew something of his work thought of him primarily as an Impressionist composer of small-scale, poetic pieces for orchestra, a sort of minor Ravel. Last week, Manhattan music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Posthumous Mass | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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