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Word: thin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thin Ice", now at the University Theatre, has surprisingly enough a proper mixture of the elements of cinema entertainment. Romance, comedy, music, skating, and even a plot contribute in turn to a thoroughly enjoyable picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

UNIVERSITY--"Thin Ice" 3.15, 6.25, 9.30 "Super Sleuth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Week's Best Films | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...Grant) suspects that Lucy (Irene Dunne) has been carrying on with her music teacher and because Jerry came back from an alleged trip to Florida with a basket of California oranges. The decree, to become final in 90 days, grants Lucy custody of shaggy Mr. Smith (Asta of The Thin Man), allows Jerry occasional visits with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Author. Most readers were not surprised that Louis Bromfield had once again written a long, thin book-which has nothing in common with E. M. Forster's great Passage to India except locale-but they were surprised to find it brown-skinned. On the publication of his last novel, The Farm (1933), Ohio-born Author Bromfield, long a Senlis (near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Storm Over India | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...group, and indeed the whole army, had a spirit that for Sommerneld made up for deficiencies. Once, on a routemarch, they passed a column coming back from the front. "They were utterly worn out, unshaven, filthy, dressed in thin, bleached and tattered overalls, mostly wearing worn-out rope-soled canvas shoes through which their toes protruded: they had hardly any kit, were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in War | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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