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Word: wistfullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plymouth-"Cynara." The distinguished English actor, Philip Merivale in a wistful comedy.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

Upon the broad side of a barn on a farm in central Washington, appears the figure of the tobacco bull, in the identical gallant pose given him by bill posters everywhere. And on this barn, as on 10,000 others, the cow member of the cast regards Her Hero with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

A Nous, La Liberté! (Tobis-Paris). French Director René Clair has made a brilliant attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

A week later, this same study son of the middle border was engaged in esoteric argument in conference with an instructor, when, in the heat of the discussion, the instructor trailed off into silence, and a musing, wistful look came into his eyes. "Is it true," he asked. "that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schiltx, the Beer that Made... | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

The men in the, San Pedro's wireless room joked at each other with wistful gallantry. Morris offered the first operator a ham sandwich, salvaged from the flooded kitchens. "Do take some more caviar, count. It will only be thrown out. . . . All together now; American Marconi Company, I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the Vestris | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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