Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am a Boy Scout and a pacifist. I resent the inference in TIME (July 18, p. 8) that the Boy Scout organization is connected with the army and navy. If you should read chapter one of the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, you would find that...
" ... We believe that the people of the U. S. see in it "Elkdom" the embodiment of all that is noble in American Manhood. Devotion to God, loyalty to country, love of our fellowmen. These are the virtues which have given us character as an organization, because we function as a...
Author Benjamin, describing prodigious doings, allows himself to become infected with the superb extravagance of his subject. He rhapsodizes too readily, too insistently points the salient qualities, too rarely sees the subtleties fused in the character of Honore de Balzac. Mediocre translation has not improved the book which is, all...
The Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was...
Died. John Drew, 73, called last week by his nephew John Barrymore "The world's greatest actor" at San Francisco, Calif.; of rheumatic fever. As death approached, Mr. Drew said: "This is but another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia...