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Word: witches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Misses Victoria Glaser as Belinda, Barbara S. Miller as the First Witch. Evelyn Stern as the Second Witch; John Eric 1G as the Sorcerer, Charles Ashmore '38 as Mercury, and Robert Cochrane, Jr. '39 as the Sailor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL HOUSE GIVES OPERA TONIGHT AT 8:30 | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...least 40,000 tons." Last week the price was down to 6? a pound. Whether or not great quantities had been burned since October, only 44,000 tons of Gold Coast cocoa reached the market. In the same five months last year the figure was 176,000. What witch-doctors, the natives wondered, were keeping the price from going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Burnt Cocoa | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...headfirst last week into the swirling torrent of half-mad Swedish genius. A thrice-married woman-hater of violent emotions, Playwright Strindberg (1849-1912) left off hating in The Bridal Crown to dramatize a spooky legend of guilt and redemption. Kersti (Aurora Bonney) trades her illegitimate baby to a witch in return for the crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate of an essentially pure girl at the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings in that same city 245 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Controller | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Queen changes herself into a witch. Unlike the original Grimm Brothers' Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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