Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone here loaned him money and bought him smokes. Great character-loquacious liar-good egg.
In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt had his Louis McHenry Howe to steer him through the intricacies of campaign politics, his Raymond Moley to chart its intellectual strategy. Researcher Taft is neither a Howe nor a Moley to Nominee Landon. Still principally responsible for the character of the Landon campaign is that...
At Staaken 15 huge German bombers were lined up as if at attention. Special customs guards had gone to the military field for the sole purpose of inspecting the Lindbergh baggage, of verifying how much money was in the Lindbergh wallet. Due at 5 p. m., the Gipsy-Moth alighted...
When in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt thus roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant. Through the latter half of the 19th Century most of the nation's schoolchildren learned about Meddlesome Mattie, many another moral, immoral or...
As the Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis...