Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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You gave many of your readers a fine thrill in printing the picture of that wonderful character "Margery" in your issue of Feb. 21. Scientifically read, every feature and every line of that face indicates honesty and sincerity.
Joan Fontaine's performance in "Maid's Night Out" comes as a pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals...
What dreadful intimations have been read into President Conant's Atlantic City address are not yet apparent, but the speech was of the same character as the documents mentioned above. The ideas it embodied were excellent, but the wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy...
Most visitors were merely tired by this exhibition. It was overcrowded, and the same sort of thing had been done before and better by the Europeans who originated it. A few temperate and tolerably fresh efforts were, nevertheless, visible. One was an Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite...
Arnold shows that despite the sweeping technological changes which have transformed the character of economic enterprise, much of America is still thinking in terms of myths applicable to the days before the giant corporation became the dominant economic unit. He shows us that the folklore of individualism built around a...