Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Eaton is a member of ten clubs, including a fishing club and two hunt clubs, one of which, at Northfield, Ohio (where Acadia Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University...
The great poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller conceived the character of Luisa Miller, made her the unhappy heroine of his play Kabale und Liebe. Italian Poet Salvatore Cammarano fashioned the opera libretto from the Schiller piece, aptly labeled the acts Love, Intrigue, Poison. The scene is in the Tyrol...
Sued. Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty; by James Joseph Tunney; at Bridgeport, Conn. The charge: Extortion, defamation of character.
DISRAELI (George Arliss)-Beacons-field-day of the old school of character acting.
In other words, Fedya is a great character, a coiled complex of frailty and nobility, such as his creator Tolstoy and that other great Russian, Dostoievsky, were particularly apt to conceive. As acted by Jacob Ben-Ami and a large company of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre...