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Word: wanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...next few mornings the Vagabond will wander to the Chapel. The seats are very comfortable, the music good, and all this week services are being held by people whom the Vagabond has always wanted to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/24/1930 | See Source »

...body requires a certain amount of common salt. Bromides drive out some of that necessary salt. When the displacement reaches 30%, bromide intoxication develops, closely resembling several other kinds of intoxication. The victim becomes drowsy and dull. His wits wander; his memory fails. He has hallucinations, "frequently of the colored type, such as seeing a Negro man or some dark animal." The well known bromide rash may or may not occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bromide Intoxication | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...unless you are planning a summer trip to their region in Holland, there's not much use in going into the subject so deeply. It is conceivable that Mr. Pasma may write sea-fiction in the future which will be of more sustained interest than this record of his Wander-jahre...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...times one feels that the author has forgotten his theme, as when he lets his characters wander to Florida in the midst of the land boom. The devotion of page after page to the character development of persons not immediately concerened in the story tends to destroy the proportion of the novel and proves to be its major fault...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Life and Musicians | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

Troyka. When news of the Revolution reaches the bleak prison island of Sakhalin, the Russian commandant shoots himself in the head and the Siberian exiles are free to try to recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast friends, because they both love a beautiful Siberian, Natascha. Semion has mated with her for eight years; for five of those years Ivan, living in the same cabin, has manfully choked his desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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