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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶Three pages about Queen Mary's hats, with the late George V remarking, balloon-wise like a comic-strip character, ''Mary, I don't like that hat. I can't see your hair."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look Out | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Three days before Christmas the "Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" sent a letter to President Roosevelt by way of his uncle, Chairman Frederic A. Delano of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission: "Over a period of many years," said 81-year-old Mr. Mellon, "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mellon to U. S. | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Mr. Cohan, the one-role actor, has selected for his one role a character that both appeals to a wide sector of every audience, and gives free play to his peculiar talents. The modesty of the character in his circumstances and of the actor in his histrionics are bound to...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

So brilliant is Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre that the critic, even, must admit he forgets the part of the flery heroine is being played by an actress and not by Jane Eyre. Possersed herself with a rebellious and independent nature, she makes the character real and vivid. As her...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

No. 1 gossip is Sylvia (Ilka Chase), a gabby troublemaker who has her children by Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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