Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hailed before NLRB as a sample Rand-Bergoff employe was hog-necked, 260 lb., Sam Harris, better known as "Chowder-head" Cohen. A ubiquitous character whose appearance and language have made him the delight of the Press, he waddled into the news last winter as boss "fink" in New York...
¶ Crowning absurdity in British interference with freedom of the Press came last week when London newsdealers refused to handle the Christmas number of Esquire. Reason: it contains a dreary piece of pseudo-satire entitled "POPULAR YOUNG MATRON-Mr. Simpson's Daughter Only Proved the Generalization That Stupidity Is...
U. S. Drys tend to be sentimentalists, exultant over small victories and busy with niggling activities pending what they believe to be the inevitable return of Prohibition. Last week many a Dry was gratified to hear a comparatively substantial gain by The Cause: the name and cheery figure of Santa...
New York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about...
Presumably Marian never read it, for she died in 1883, 35 years before her gifted, disappointed husband and 47 years before the publication of his letters. As he had destroyed in 1885 all that he could recover, as well as his diaries and notes, her collected correspondence, published last week...