Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, with the story thoroughly deflated, Democratic pressagents had their fling. In their daily press release they accused the Republican National Committee of attempting to besmirch "the sterling character and unblemished reputation" of "one of the finest officers of the U. S. Army," directly accused the GOP publicity staff...
In rebuttal. Dr. Thorpe's attorneys wheeled into action the most formidable instrument for destroying a film character by sexual innuendo that California had seen since the 1922 "Fatty" Arbuckle case. Dr. Thorpe, after the divorce, had apparently stolen a two-volume diary kept by his exwife. Its revelations...
The Author. The life of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette reads like a scenario for one of her novels. She was born 63 years ago in Burgundy, the daughter of a Captain in the Zouaves who was an unsuccessful politician and a student of military affairs. A star pupil in school...
With some asperity last week Tokyo's famed Nichi Nichi commented, "The War Minister has perhaps cultivated safety too much, searching for honesty rather than for strength of character."
Appearing complicated to the point of bewilderment at first glance, this narrative method emerges in The Big Money as ingeniously simple. Basis of the book is the life stories of a few men and women whose careers converge or parallel each other. Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual...