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Word: sentimentales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, a burly policeman who could not stand the gaff, passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

The churchmen-not only good, but fairly representative of U. S. churchmanship at its most intelligent-were less interested in making un-American motions than in making sense of the problems facing the churches. The biggest of these, the war, floored them at the start. Delegates could not agree on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Council | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

In all her picturesque adventures (naughty but never nasty), Lady Eleanor's most colorful acquaintance was her reckless, extravagant, vain, arrogant, sentimental, witty father. From the one chapter she gives to him, a reader must conclude that he was an even more picturesque throwback to Bathsheba than his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gypsy Blood | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Appropriate, but irrelevant to any of the real issues facing the Supreme Court and the nation, was the full-dress pageant enacted in the Court building at Washington yesterday. The Supreme Court was 150 years old, to the day. The occasion called for renewed expressions of sentimental attachment to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVOLUTION OF 1937 | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

Success of "Destry Rides Again" is all the more remarkable when one considers that its thesis is the superiority of peaceful methods over violence. Into a wide open town, with its typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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