Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I went early to Mr. Inman's who made the Genteelest Entertainment I ever saw on account of his son George taking his Degree yesterday--he had Three hundred forty seven Gentlemen & Ladies dined. Two hundred & Ten at one Table--amongst the Company The Governour & Family, The Lieut. Governour & Family...
Thence to talk much of the Baccalaureate Sermon which they all had read, even the little cousin, and much impressed with it; but I did not like it too much: Though I know it be a good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And...
President. An indication of the loneliness of his office rather than any want of humanity on his part is the fact that President Angell will next year reach retirement age (68) without having acquired a nickname at Yale. Many an undergraduate does not recognize him as he plays on the...
Secret Agent (Gaumont-British) introduces to U. S. cinema audiences a hero who should please them highly: Operative Ashenden of the British Intelligence Service, whose activities have been recorded so successfully in fiction by Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed...
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood.