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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blurbs lead one to expect in the "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" something akin to the dawn of a new era in motion pictures. In it Hollywood has made a conscious essay at naturalness and authenticity. "Becky Sharp", they tell us, was nothing more than the first faltering step in Technicolor progress; this version of the Fox romance sees the new photographic technique come of age. These claims are, of course, subject to reservation, for in its very attempt at naturalness the picture is at times so conspicuously natural and self-conscious that one concludes there is still much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards are in her hands. She whispers to her grandmother that Martha is up to tricks with Karen's fiancé. Old Mrs. Tilford feels bound to tell the parents of other girls. The school goes to pieces, Karen and Martha lose a slander suit, and, in the sudden horror of the situation, Karen begins to wonder if the story might be true. Even when Martha finally proves the lie, it is too late to do much good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...earnest Brooklyn physicians who invited him to tell them about vitamins last week, Johns Hopkins' Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum was a demigod who enabled doctors and druggists to profit from the vitamin business. When he finished speaking they beamed less amiably at him. For Dr. McCollum debunked some of the claims made for some of the vitamins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Debunker | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...blooded (given the accolade of a dab of blood on the cheeks, from a torn bit of the killed fox). He sneaked away to cockfights, hunted rats, drank in wisdom and tall tales from his elders. He learned to distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together. The Cap'n's hunt made up in enthusiasm and skill what it lacked in fanciness. Socially a cut above the night foxhunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reynard & Pals | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Before next fall legislators' records will be gone over with a fine tooth comb, their stand on the stump will be carefully questioned and clucidated. The autumn elections will have a real story to tell. Legislative berths are regarded as warm and comfortable ones by other people besides the present occupants, and applicants with sane ideas about education are going to win great support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUND ONE | 3/27/1936 | See Source »

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