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Word: suitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolves around a small-town girl who, to dismiss one suitor, indicates to him that she is about to become a mother. The rest of the action involves phrases and situations which do not exactly become a mother, but are at times quite amusing. In the end it turns out that it was all in fun and that no one is to become a father...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/28/1931 | See Source »

...thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong as the one who gets Jean Arthur in the end. Best shot: an express racing through life-sized valleys and hills to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...Reno in travelog manner and partly a triangle lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Floor Above" live David Kennard (Ivor Novello) & wife (Benita Hume). Their story: While working on a symphony, David goes blind. His wife's suitor subsidizes the family, allows David to believe that his symphony has won a $10,000 competition. David finds out the truth, imagines that his wife is unfaithful, dismisses her. When she returns he will not allow her to sacrifice herself for him, pretends that he has regained his sight. The deception is unsuccessful, however, and Mr. & Mrs. Kennard are last seen at the piano, where he is playing her a little love ditty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor to the Infanta Beatriz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Joke | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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