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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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GAETA, ITALY--Nineteen persons, including a New York woman and the Albanian Minister to Rome, were burned to death when a big Italian passenger seaplane crashed from 2500 feet into the side of Mount Maramola...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Italian Seaplane Crashes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Circle wears well because it offers no dated problem in morals, but a permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good many messes, read very few books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...today set the seal of approval on New York Officials' censorship of the Czechoslovakian film, "Ecstasy." The Court dismissed the appeal of Eureka Productions, Inc., from a Southern New York Federal District Court decision refusing to enjoin authorities from interfering with exhibition of the film, which shows a beautiful woman swimming without a swimming suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...devoted to the dictator, followed him to battle, and buried him at last. But when they consider what Lopez was up to when she was so close to him, readers may reflect that her devotion does not do her unmixed honor. Aside from the purple passages describing their romance, Woman on Horseback is most interesting in its account of Lopez' battles. Again & again his rapidly dwindling armies defeated superior forces, the Pyrrhic victories continuing until Paraguay virtually had no men between the ages of 14 and 60. The only stumbling block to peace negotiations was Lopez' refusal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historic Slaughter | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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