Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romance is braided into the plot, not too skillfully. The better moments are those in which reporters are talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible...
The Money Lender. When Major Luttrell died he was known to have left a fortune but none knew how he, once so impecunious he had to leave the Army, had amassed ?200,000 (convenient symbol for $1,000,000). When the will was read, the startling disclosure came. He had...
It is a truism that hands are as expressive as faces and it is true that they are a more certain means of identification. Nonetheless, because it is easy to see, a face is the more convenient link between a person and his name. So convenient indeed that it is...
"Big business leaders who have the largest stake in law observance publicly and privately violate this law and countenance its violation by others. Instead of using their wealth and influence to create public opinion demanding law enforcement, our business men of character and position are the chief support of the...
A slap in the face or other physical insult will occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want...