Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"5. Reticent, reserved, not many acquaintances, but a few intimate friends. Belonging to no societies perhaps. Carrying in his face the character so plainly to be seen there by the most casual observer, that nobody ever makes to him a dishonorable proposal."
These words did not seem out of character to those who knew Dr. Jones or to those (of whom there are altogether well over 300,000) who had read his book. The Christ of the Indian Road is a simple unfolding of a brilliant idea, to wit: Christ as a...
It was with such sure tactics that Miss Spence made her school the Manhattan model for discipline and scholarship as well as for what was then referred to as gentility. Her gayety, her wisdom, and her lofty character came to be reflected in the school she ran so long. When...
The Rt. Rev. Ignacio Valdespino, Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico, a good Roman Catholic, died last week in San Antonio, Texas. The Most Rev. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, archbishop of San Antonio, pronounced a funeral sermon at a solemn requiem mass in San Fernando cathedral. It was a pronouncement not limited to...
As a writer Julian Green shows unmistakable talent, as a psychologist he is convincing beyond question, but as a novelist he has yet to achieve something of universality. As in his first novel, Avarice House, not a single character has charm or kindness-nothing but selfishness, fear, jealousy. Adrienne is...