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Word: characterize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laymen's fingers are still pointed. People still ask to be told the sense of what they like to call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Rhodes candidates are judged on the basis of these four general points; their literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship; moral character and leadership; and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE RHODES CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED BY LOWELL | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Victor Mathews Harding, Jr. '31, of Hubbard Woods, Illinois, has been awarded the Richard Perking Parker Scholarship, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. This prize which was established in 1923 by members of the Class of 1922 in honor of Richard Perking Parker '22 of Salem, is awarded annually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STELLAR PASS RECEIVER WINS PARKER SCHOLARSHIP | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

But in the last two acts, acted in the jury room, the spirit languishes. For Mrs. Fiske's absurd first-act character becomes a smart, dominating woman, and what was almost wicked satire becomes burlesque. The jury is shown in impromptu sleeping regalia. Two lovers are interrupted at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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