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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a group of students take on the task of voicing undergraduate sentiment, their powers for doing harm obviously exceed their capacity for doing good. Aided by the public's tendency to confuse the writings of a dozen men with the unanimous opinion of an undergraduate body, they win a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGHTS ON A DIAMOND JUBILEE | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

When we come to the large group of French drawings we are at once impressed by the length of a tradition in draughtmanship. Of its several centuries five are represented here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

For most guests Author Marlowe shows astonishing tolerance. (After a charity ball in London, which kept him on his feet 19 hours at a halfpenny an hour, he could still spare a sympathetic thought for the hangovers in store for the revelers.) Main bane of waiters, says Marlowe, is tipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiter | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

The drama puts its audiences through a workout. For him who is willing to do his part, filling in the lives of the chief characters and standing in their shoes, there is infinite pleasure. Color the piquancy of Frances Farmer, the skillful directorial use of the melodramatic cloak, the haunting...

Author: By M. F. F., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps most interesting to the litterateur are his reminiscences on the great personalities he has known, and the friendships he has shared with them. He passes from a glimpse of Swinburne, through the Lawrences, Hardy, Campbell to Rupert Brooke, A. E. Housman, George Meredith, and many others. Of these men...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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