Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"It is the purpose of the Committee for Industrial Organization," stated that body, "to conduct this campaign in a perfectly legal manner. . . . The Committee desires to avoid industrial strife and disturbance or violence of any character."
"Since that struggle, however, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land which reordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, of railroads, of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution. . . . Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new...
At Cleveland Republicans, with honest differences of opinion to reconcile among themselves, wrote a platform marked with the inconsistencies that inevitably go with compromise. At Philadelphia Democrats had only to reconcile their platform with the opinions of their President. Its consistency and trustworthiness were automatically measured by each citizen'...
An old fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground...