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Word: sweetheart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lover, duelist, cowboy, playboy, musketeer on the screen, his private life was as romantic as his public. He traveled everywhere. His second wife was Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford. Even when he was past 50, he leaped fences rather than go through gates, married the divorced wife of a British nobleman (a onetime mannequin), 20 years younger than himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Leap | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Absolutely, Jimmy Bowen had done a sweetheart of a reporting job, the first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...them, because they're all old ones that are good: "If I Could Be With You"--"Dear Old Southland"; "Japanese Sandman".--"I Know That You Know"; "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"--"Christopher Columbus"; "Madhouse"--"Get Happy"; "Can't We Be Friends"--"Swing Me A Swing Song"; "Someday Sweetheart...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week the young man and his sweetheart accepted congratulations from their friends: they were engaged to be married. Everyone remarked on what a fine couple they made, though some thought that, for a man, the fiance's ears were a trifle small and delicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother to Son | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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