Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This man is Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, right bower to firm old Cardinal Mundelein. Bishop Sheil is a short, electric character who speaks staccato brogue. Shrewd, kindly, foresighted, he founded the first Catholic Youth Organization in 1930, which has now been accepted as the...
Even after his paper began to fade, "Old Pitch" remained a character. His greying hair fell over his collar and his jutting jaw was fringed by old-fashioned sideburns. In his breast pocket he kept a six-inch ruler, with which he settled all arguments concerning distance, and a small...
''The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" is a character with whom Cleveland newspapers have curdled their readers' blood since 1934, when the first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven...
Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children...
Edith Ellsworth Kinsley has searched the Brontë novels and poems for the character of Branwell and her technique in presenting Branwell's biography is to change the fictional names in autobiographical passages to the real names, juggle tenses, link wholesale quotations in chronological order. Because one Brontë...