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Word: simon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent there without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom any shock is likely to kill because her arteries are "as thin as tissue paper." When Poe is offered a magazine job in Richmond, Virginia faints. Poe finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...HEART GOES A-JOURNEYING- Hans Fallada-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A whimsical folktale by the author of Little Man, What Now? relating how a lovable but erratic old professor rescues his angelic god-daughter from a villain of purest German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Chevrolet Campaign | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Harvard is to get such a happy contradiction in terms as a permanent football coach, Harlow is certainly the man for the job. He is uniformly liked by everyone with whom he comes in contact. He plays to win, but defeats--and the simon pures will always get their full share--do not upset him unduly. If the team has done its best, he can begin another week after a crushing loss with no regrets, enveloped in no cloud of gloom. And who is there now to say that he is not an able coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...whole, despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

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