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Word: songfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial that he rendered the last lines of the song, which ends: To Hell with Mr. Volstead And God save the King!-ED. Chandler, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor and her accomplice will be on the brink of matrimony. They have become engaged to each other in half the civilized countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this season in Lean Harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Baltimore relief ball Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sang "Cuban Love Song" from his latest cinema, got tremendous publicity when six women fainted. One pushed her way through the mob, tremblingly touched his cheek, swooned at his feet. "Gee whiz!" said Baritone Tibbett, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Woodcutter James Reid (The Life of Christ in Wood Cuts, TIME, Dec. 22, 1930) has made effectively unbiblical illustrations for the unbiblical Song of Songs (Farrar & Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gift Books | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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