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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What. Mr. Justice Black did not seem to realize was that in the 20th Century there is simply no corner of the earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Black Back | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

A village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baltimore Bonds | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Some readers, baffled by the famine-price set on this slim, 81-page volume (all the more remarkable in view of Steinbeck's proletarian themes), may jump to the wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steinbeck Inflation | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

To 25-year-old Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

"They Gave Him a Gun" is the story of a youth whose aversion to killing in 1917 turns into his source of income as a racketeer after the Armistice. Knowing he is weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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