Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1931 the elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out...
While the activities of Lawrence are the principal focus of the volume. Edmonds has deliberately tern aside the veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad...
What he had forgotten was that citizens of all nations are transfigured with patriotism when they are abroad. His German fellow-passengers promptly declared war. German curses followed him down gangways; Germans bumped him, stepped on his toes, buttonholed him to shout red-faced abuse. German women, he later claimed...
Beyond saying that he was "frequently and desperately sea-sick," was apt to disobey orders in action and take credit for the brilliant strokes of subordinates, Biographer Bowen does not attack the naval ability of her hero; but of her hero's character and that of his doxy she...
Gas to Edison. At a raucous annual meeting in Manhattan, Consolidated Gas Co. stockholders voted, 7,836,658 shares to 758 shares, to change their company's name to Consolidated Edison "to reflect more nearly the character of the business, three-quarters of which is now the sale of...