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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take quite seriously the New Masses' recent "exposure" of General Krivitsky. I should have expected TIME to be sophisticated enough to have looked into the following points: i) Why does the New Masses charge merely that Krivitsky-Ginsberg can't shoot a rifle and has never seen Stalin (two charges that by their nature can't be proved or disproved and anyway don't mean anything) while avoiding any attack on his main claim, which is that he was for some years chief of the Russian Military Intelligence Service for Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...want to say now is this. Your magazine contains no news, we read all the news in the newspapers a week or so ahead of your issues. Your comments do not amount to a row of pins, after we have seen enough _of them to size them up. Your attitude is distinctly Smart Aleck and Puffed Up-"Swelled Head," so to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...that Gilbert, no note that Sullivan, did not write. A few omissions include the duet between Katisha and Ko-Ko, There is beauty in the bellow of the blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped by Tin Pan Alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago & North Western Railway Co. made its counsel, methodical Fred Wesley Sargent, its president and operating head. Last week, 63 and ailing, lawyer-railroader-gentleman Farmer Sargent resigned, having in 14 years seen the North Western win seven national rewards for safe operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Outs & Ins | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back and hovered around Aubignane, then flew off towards the plains. After that the sun came out and, like a mouth, breathed warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastoral | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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