Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The secret of England's glory, according to Maurois, was not the character of her people, it was not climate or her natural impregnability, it was her isolation. Before the advent of the airplane, the submarine, and the speedier steamboat, England was open to attack from the water, and efforts...
The action follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the...
The Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Path...
Editor Robert C. Cook of the Association's Journal of Heredity published the pictures and report which Mr. Sternberger mailed. Commented Editor Cook last week: "There is no scientific justification whatever for Mr. Sternberger's expressed belief that the creature is a catdog hybrid, or that its appearance...
Brose was a dangerous character, a fighting fool. With the "Bloody First" he got plenty of danger and many a fight: Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. At Gettysburg Brose was in the charge that reached the highwater mark of the Confederacy inside the stone...