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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...winner of the contest will be crowned "Miss Harvard" in front of the John Harvard statue in the Yard. "John will cast his approving eyes on the most beautiful woman ever seen in Cambridge," say the editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Whether their interpretation is accurate or not, no one can really tell, but anyone who has seen the play can readily tell that they have brought a vivid personality to life. Mystic, tragic, almost pathetic, their Lincoln is haunted by a trauma of youth, heckled by a shrewish wife, driven into the White House almost against his will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...Junior Harmon, a 9.9 sprinter and champion hurdler, scored every one of Michigan's 27 points: four touchdowns (including a 90-yd. dash after intercepting a forward pass) and three conversions- as magnificent a display of fancy field running, forward passing, blocking and place-kicking as has been seen on a college football field since the days of Red Grange. Michigan 27, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backs | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry him. As for the interview, Stefansson later wrote Bill a letter and said it was the greatest piece of reporting he had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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