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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testifying last, Director Lilienthal was expected to supply the major fireworks. Although he occasionally put some feeling into his voice, once pounded his desk, his was mostly another long, dull recital. After deploring the "reckless charges, insinuations and unjustifiable slurs" of a "character assassin," Director Lilienthal defended his "yardstick," his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

The Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Maxwell Anderson's "Star Wagon" is a shuttle-train in time, allowing its drivers to ignore the usual chronological conventions and to travel in any direction and at any speed in the fourth dimension as well as in the other three. Joining J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, and a...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

The world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ex-R. A. | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

"Chairman Harcourt Morgan and I are gratified at the outcome of this negotiation," said David Lilienthal. "This contract encourages me to believe that in the near future in other pending situations in the Tennessee Valley region, contracts of this character may likewise take the place of litigation and conflict, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Constructive Work | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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