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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beloved Enemy (Samuel Goldwyn) is billed as a "legend inspired by fact." The fact is the Irish rebellion of 1921. The legend, as presented by Writers John Balderston, William Meloney & Rose Franken, should certainly raise the eyebrows of students of recent Irish history. As the hero of the ''...

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

FOR SALE: Cedar Island, .947 acre off Cedar Point, L. I., in the strait between Gardiners Bay and Shelter Island Sound. Includes historic, 97-year-old lighthouse and nine-room granite keeper's house. No conveniences, but ideal for recluse, romantic or for summer home. Send bid before Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lighthouses for Sale | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Ghost stories are rare in contemporary fiction. But their traditional stage properties-creepy old houses, strange cries at night, creaking witches who mumble obscurely-are still standbys for romantic novelists who exclude the supernatural from their tales. Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered its members a weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evil Demons | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Johnson was no stranger to the Metropolitan. For 13 years he had kept his eminence there as an important romantic tenor, created more roles than any other tenor alive. Romantic ladies still heave when they recall his dreamy Peter Ibbetson, his wistful Pelleas, his tender Romeo. Forthwith he settled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Metamorphosis | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Francis Lederer, romantic matinee idol of women from Radcliffe to Paris, Manhattan to Vienna, has not always been such. Once a floor-washer in Prague for $1.20 a week, he, today, has a tremendous interest in promoting world peace and preventing wars. To advance the idea, he has founded, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "War Is Hell," Says Francis Lederer in Speaking of World Disrupted by Greed | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

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