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Word: soothes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ENEMY Soothsayer's Sooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soothsayer's Sooth | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fame Begins at 40 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

With a fervor unmatched since the days of the Old Testament prophets, he went further and insisted that if his vision were followed it would bring victory, and with victory an end of human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Vision | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...conclusion that Mozart's music is thoroughly superficial, that it resembles notlring so much as cheap confectionery. If, while he was really "unhappy," Mozart should have continued to compose "happy" music, he was being false to himself both as man and artist; false to his most penetrating, and, in sooth, his most sacred feelings. But Mozart does not ignore his environment; the environment is absorbed, digested, into the totality of his artistic experience. In Berlioz, as in any romantic composer, it is the mood of the moment, the specific, particular emotion which goes into the notes. In Mozart, any individual...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

With all the audacity of a squirrel that finds a nut and then points to it instead of hiding it, diminutive Portugal last week rashly called attention to herself and her empire-fourth largest area in the world-by proclaiming a six-month festival to celebrate the Sooth anniversary of her independence and the tercentenary of her restoration following 60 years under Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Audacious Pageant | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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