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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sonja Henie contradicts not only the law of gravity but also the rule that women athletes are physically unsuited for roles as romantic heroines. A trim-figured blonde with brown eyes, plump cheeks, a dimpled smile, she fits with assurance into an anecdote-about a U. S. theatrical manager (Adolphe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killiecrankie | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

As proof of his enduring identity, Mr. Cohan is exactly the same person as he was last year in "Dear Old Daddy". A steady, solid, unstartling business man with a constant flow of good humor and dessicated sentiment is again overwhelmed by a rush of romantic events, with which he...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

The incidents on which Beloved Enemy are based are so exciting that it would be hard for them to inspire a really dull picture. Lacking the succinct power of The Informer, this first Hollywood effort of 31-year-old Director Henry C. Potter, who got his start in the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Non-Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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