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Word: roses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another test of reasoning from, economic facts, students were to tell the effect on supply, demand and the price of American wheat in the world market if a major European war broke out and agricultural wage rates in the U. S. rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thinking Test | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Rose of Washington Square (Twentieth Century-Fox) is prefaced by the customary assurance that any resemblance to fact is purely "coincidental." This legal formula has never rung more hollowly. The picture chronicles the rise of Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, renamed Ted Cotter and played by Al Jolson. Ted's good friend in the picture is one Rose Sargent (Alice Faye), a Ziegfeld star whose worthless husband (Tyrone Power) besmirches her name by fleeing justice after he becomes involved in a bond scandal. Rose vows her loyalty and, by sobbing out from the Ziegfeld stage the song My Man, persuades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Inferior as melodrama, Rose of Washington Square is tops as a vehicle for displaying the talents of two superlative song pluggers. Plugger Jolson, still leather-lunged at 52, blacks his face and shouts

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

SPANISH REFUGEES Gypsy Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

When the five-day festival opened, even ramshackle Music Hall had had a coat of paint, and the smell of moth balls rose from Cincinnati's resurrected tail coats like incense in a cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Festival | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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