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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The articles on the fields of concentration contain reports on new men expected to teach next year, new courses to be offered, character of the tutorial work offered, and comments on the men in the field, with particular stress being laid upon their teaching, lecturing, general ability, and scholarship. Practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFERENCES '37 CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE COMMENCE | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

The Federal Theatre is now offering "The Deluge", a static study of character by Frank Allen, announced by the lights out in front as a "sardonic comedy drama". A minor calamity visits a city on the Mississippi, and the responses made to the stress by ten assorted characters comprise the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

But much of the profit of this ingenious turn of affairs is wasted. There is litle interest to be derived from putting characters through revealing paces if the characters are not intrinsically interesting. Mr. Allen's creations are rather shadowy, tedious things. One character out of the ten, however, redeems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

Main character in Producer Kassler's Golem is not the Golem but Emperor Rudolph (Harry Baur). Half-mad, bullied by his Prime Minister and harried by his mistress (Germaine Aussey), he has a fixation about the Golem, wants it destroyed. Prague's persecuted Jews are equally determined to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Noel's consuming desire was to be on first-name terms with the great ones of his world, and now he began to see his wish fulfilled. He even crashed county society, found he could play his part there to his own satisfaction. As for the others: "The setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair-haired Boy | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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