Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This regular event, kept going by her active and admiring set of women friends, bears the clear stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt's character. Ever willing to take an active part in everything, she herself puts on an act, although even mention of its subject matter is forbidden. More characteristic...
Mr. Roosevelt made the 12,000-mi. Buenos Aires round trip in unaccustomed and unexpected obscurity on the inside pages of even the most earnest U. S. dailies while their most prominent news columns and largest headlines went to the Woman of the Year (see col. 3). The President was...
Before Detective Charles has pinned responsibility for the murder to the least likely character involved, After the Thin Man has introduced to cinema audiences as amusing a group of suspects as Author Hammett, its No. 1 purveyor of this specialty, has yet contributed to the screen. Included are: a monosyllabic...
Among Mr. Brisbane's likes were Mussolini, Calvin Coolidge, big families, aviation, and the Emperor Nero, who he vowed was history's most admirable, character. Mr. Brisbane was fond of describing executions, took a detailed and almost professional interest in Nazi decapitations, seemed to derive great satisfaction from...
All dire forebodings are promptly fulfilled. In the dark abode of the Séverins, where no sunlight ever penetrates, the exiles are tormented by a hideous assortment of demons. The worst of their enemies is old Colonel Séverin, whose history is so involved that most of the...