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Word: sillier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized its usefulness, thus loses some of his customary forceful directness. Ruth Gordon, a noted giggler, makes the stage Mattie sillier than Edith Wharton intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...temporal in the stacks of Widener and the dust of decades, we pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

Approved by the Legion of Decency, The Werewolf of London is a shade sillier than The Bride of Frankenstein, more alarming for small children than Mark of the Vampire. Universal last week instructed its theatre-owner clients how to advertise the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Honestly! this gets sillier with every word. (Is my timidity evident?) Don't dispair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. S. V. P. | 11/17/1933 | See Source »

...commones and sizinges," which was board together with food and drink ordered from the buttery: "tuition"; 'study-rente and beed," or room and bed "for and candell"; wood; and for bringing corn from Charlestown." On he other side of the ledgers, Bridgen vas credited with such things as "sillier," "wheatt," "malte," "Indian" or born and "a bush of parsnips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Man To Work Way Through College Tolled Bell and Waited an Tables in 1657 | 11/14/1933 | See Source »

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