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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sceptre on September 7, whose 32 survivors turned up last week in Bahia, Brazil aboard the British freighter Browning (minus their Captain Mestre, who apparently went down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Heroes & Heroics | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...when the French listen to enemy broadcasts which tell them this war is England's war they reply: No, it's Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as a book and magazine illustrator, etched and painted between commissions. His background gave Artist Sloan a taste for catching people in their unbuttoned moments, taught him it was no shame to tell stories in his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unbuttoned Painter | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold but lovely shoulder. When her spy fiends (who all resemble Nazis) request her to snitch state secrets through her husband, Brenda makes a clean breast of things to Barry. Off he strides to tell the State Department about it and resign, then sets out with Brenda to track down her erstwhile employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Battle of Hastings | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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