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Word: weirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra, is probably the most gratifying surprise of all the 150 albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feathered Kapp | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Unpleasant surprise: majestic Judith Anderson (the weird housekeeper of Rebecca) cast by one of Hollywood's amazing artistic lapses as a Cantor stooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mothers and He Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Many readers of TIME have called the attention of the American Osteopathic Association to statements appearing in your March 4 issue, p. 66, in a story headed "Weird Hospital" in the department "Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Rebecca (United Artists). From beyond the grave dead Rebecca de Winter dominates the lives of her husband and his second wife as Manderley, the de Winters' rambling Tudor stronghold, dominates the misty Cornish coast. Beyond there is always the sea to which Manderley's weird housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, once listens as if to a sound nobody else can hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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