Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The question of what to do with the Stadium, which confronts the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its meeting tonight, involves no consideration permanence. The time is not far distant when the present concrete Stadium will be structurally unfit for use. When that time comes, there will...
*Mr. Bumble: Character in Dickens' Oliver Twist. Smug, self-righteous, disagreeable, he is the beadle in the orphan asylum at which Oliver disgraced himself by asking for "more." It was Mr. Bumble who christened Oliver, as follows:
Ruth Draper's Monologues are by now sufficiently famed not to need exposition. She appeared in Manhattan last week in a series of character sketches. With no more props than could be put in a pigeonhole, she managed to make herself into a series of totally different and exceedingly...
I have begun these brief sketches of Oxford impressions with the weather, because it is one of the most striking and persistent of first impressions at Oxford. I have seen freshmen very depressed and lonely chiefly because of the weather. It is the first real obstacle to feeling at home...
Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare.