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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy Department makes surprisingly good entertainment. En route to the Olympic Games as a javelin thrower, Phil Donlan (Paul Kelly) unwisely lets himself be involved in a shipboard party celebrating the elopement of two of his fellow passengers. Their marriage fails to materialize but he gets tossed off the Olympic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

ROMANTIC ADVENTURE-Elinor Glyn-Dutton ($3.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Being a Lady, Elinor Glyn has not told everything. Locked away in her diaries, the "unvarnished truth" is still imprisoned. But in Romantic Adventure she has let out some, after giving it a ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Part of their honeymoon was spent at Brighton, where, with a "princely gesture," Bridegroom Clayton rented the public swimming baths for two days for their private use, so that he and his bride might swim there naked. The honeymoon over, they settled down to the life of travel, houseparties, "seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Now back in England, her nearly native land, Elinor Glyn is an old lady, with two grandsons at Eton, but her hair has not yet turned grey. Her London drawing room has tiger skins galore, not one spittoon. Ending her romantic memories on a mystic note of hope, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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