Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The Housemaster" is a gentle brew of sentiment and humor, and the latter ingredient is racy enough to make the play wholly charming. Ian Hay, the author, gives more or less of an autobiography, since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is...
The blend of unblushing sentiment and desiccating humor smacks strongly of Dickens at his best. Its success (and that success was so great the first night in Boston that it drew out some dozen curtain-calls) is due in large part to the masterly work of Frederick Leicester who, besides...
"The Ethiopian situation was a function of the rebirth of Germany," asserted the instructor. Always treated as the inferior Latin brothers of the French, Italy at first, in her desire to carve out a new "Roman Empire" in the Mediterranean, came into conflict with the German national expansion of similar...
"The first of the obstacles to a dependable character," said Dr. Fosdick, "is a sense of guilt. Most of the types of mental derangement are due to this. We do evil secretly and then are afraid that we will be found out publicly. Our evil accumulates an increasing sum of...
"The gaining of a steady, dependable character is, however, much more than recovery from failure. No man has stability of character until he has become a real person' with god and useful ambitions.