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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That insulin is a magic key to sanity, no psychiatrist believes. Says Dr. James Aloysius Flaherty, Dr. Strecker's young assistant: "It is carelessly gambling with a recovery hard-won to send a patient home without making real effort to stabilize the environment to which he must return or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

So conscious of their moral obligations are its editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Some of the spectators came to see the saddle horses with their set-up tails and elegant, high-stepping gaits; others for the toy-like harness ponies and their top-hatted or aigretted drivers. As usual, however, the biggest drawing card was the jumping events.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Women | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

The Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Filling the stage with the Day family, unctuous rectors, unwelcome relatives, tearful and transient servant girls, and forwarding the story with a protracted conspiracy to get Father baptized, Life with Father bowls pleasantly along. The first two acts are rather upsy-downsy, with some of the humor forced and thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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