Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be...
Answered at last His Majesty's new Foreign Secretary, Laborite Arthur Henderson, with a sly twinkle: "The telegram that I sent to Lord Lloyd was of such a character that I thought most people would have accepted it as an invitation to terminate the position."
Wonder of Women (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). By thoughtful creation of character this film avoids being a restatement of one of the standard generalities about people with artistic temperament. It is adapted from Sudermann's The Wife of Stephen Tromholt and the outlines of the original story, even its tragic ending...
Like most painters, Painter Chandor prefers men to women as subjects. "It's an awful strain to paint women. They must constantly be amused," he says. For women who interest him as subjects he designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather...
(3 of 3) great-grandchildren will be much more likely to stop and look at an old portrait on the stairs if it moves them to say 'What an interesting old girl she must have been,' than if it is just a pretty face. Charm lies in character."