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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sullivan, a local character who represents the Harvard Square region in the City Council, patriotically resents his ward's being named after John Harvard, who, he says, never set foot in this city.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOULD CHANGE "HARVARD" TO "GEORGE WASHINGTON" SQUARE | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Cats may look at kings, but extras rarely criticize producers. Recently, however, Manila's Philippines Free Press carried a disturbing communication from one of the 1,000 members of Los Angeles' Filipino colony who have been working on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's $2,000,000 epic of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goldwyn's Filipinos | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Swagger little President Manuel Quezon last week lodged formal protest against such a portrait of Philippine character through his Resident Commissioner Joaquin ("Mike") Elizalde, who emplaned from Washington for California to talk to Mr. Goldwyn. Upshot: for Producer Goldwyn, another well-publicized tribulation; for Commissioner Elizalde, an invitation to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goldwyn's Filipinos | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed. Thin-faced, spectacled Archie Wright, onetime representative of the hard-boiled National Maritime Union of the C. I. O., bought a dairy farm near Ogdensburg, N. Y. Between seeing that his cows were milked, he set out to help form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk Without Honey | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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