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Word: sparkly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love Again (Walter Wanger) puts a favorite poser of slick-paper fiction, viz., whether there is a spark in that old campus romance yet, these ten years later. Its answer is a heart-warming yes, echoing around the shaded quiet of a i Vermont college town. Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex by the Yard | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...leave our age the quite considerable spark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets' Account | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...take the last step, and the hardest one, you have to have a certain insanity born in you. Perhaps 'genius' is a better word. It's a certain inspirational spark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adventurer Halliburton Bewails His Sanity as Barrier to True Eminence | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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