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Word: willa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest of the group of highly-paid U. S. women romancers who are perennial best sellers (Temple Bailey, Edna Ferber, Kathleen Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Willa Gather) is Brooklyn's vivacious Faith Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brooklyn Best Seller | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

This afternoon at 2 o'clock the Vagabond will appear in humble mood to hear Mr. DeVoto on Willa Cather. (Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/10/1935 | See Source »

...noon, in a room heavy with perspiration and heat and flowers and human emotion, they and the visitors from Lincoln wedged themselves to hear the list of those who had received degrees. Among those honored was a frail young girl from Virginia. "Willa Sibert Cather," called the voice from the platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/10/1935 | See Source »

...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: In Vermilion | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Lost Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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