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Word: sentimentale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Alphabet Crisis | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and envy into the epithet, perfidious Albion. Even Heinrich Heine warned against "the treacherous and murderous intrigues of those Carthaginians of the North Sea." Writer-Diplomat Harold Nicolson in his Diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to be Perfidious | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Metro put $3,000,000 into The Wizard of Oz, left out only the kitchen stove. Its tornado rivals Sam Goldwyn's The Hurricane. Its final sequence is as sentimental as Little Women. Its Singer Midgets, most publicized of all the picture's cast, go through their paces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

From canoes to coal barges, Parisians are sentimental about anything that floats on the oily Seine. But best-loved of all their chowchow river traffic were the slim little green-and-white bateaux mouches (fly boats), which took to the water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flies' End | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Europe's crisis in the 16th Century looked much like Europe's crisis in the 20th. The line-up then was the Habsburgs' medieval world reich and the Catholic Church v. the collective-security front of Protestant England, Holland and France. Protestantism and Catholicism were in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High--Spicy | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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