Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states...
Since his inauguration in 1909 President Lowell has seen Harvard lead the way in some of the most notable contributions of modern times to American education. The introduction of the House Plan, the founding of the School of Business Administration, the tutorial system, and the system of concentration and distribution...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him...
Gladstone was Chancellor of the Excequer. As Henry Adams, the precocious young son of the American Minister to London, put it, "If in the domain of the world's politics, one point was fixed, one value ascertained, one element serious, it was the British Exchequer, and if one man lived...
The part of Madge Graham (the rich little poor girl) saved from the possibility of bathos and given a certain wistful distinction by Patricia MacMakin, who shows up best in the scene immediately after her rescue, when, naive and self-contained, she discourses on the family failing for falling off...