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Word: wilted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VOYAGE-Heinrich Herm-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A luxury liner strikes a floating derelict and the characters wilt like dress shirts. Good second-rate thriller made slightly indigestible by Teutonic philosophizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Books of the Fortnight | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...crooks, industrialists might be common gamblers and gangsters might rule politics but nothing could rob commercial aviation of its honest achievements. In that decade the country learned to fly. Laid were the foundations of an air transport system that became the envy of every foreigner. Even Depression could not wilt this fine new flower of U. S. ingenuity and enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Mail | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...Wilt thou this night hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Merry Mount in Michigan | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Cinema | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard. . . . When the maids were gone forth the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: . . . Nobody seeth us and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee. . . . Susanna said: ... It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. . . . And the elders cried out against her. . . . The multitudes believed them . . . and condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Susanna At Albany | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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