Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"We have warned American citizens against transactions of any character with either of the belligerents [a significant pause], except at their risk.
"I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by...
...oldtime romancer, added to the 40,000-odd books that have been written about Napoleon a volume, ''a novel and not a history," dealing with the four critical months of the First Italian Campaign. Since its details are historically accurate, and since the author's characterization of Napoleon as an individual is monotonous, The Road to Glory is most interesting in its accounts of battles, of strategy and the arts of war. When Mr. Austin's Napoleon plans a flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge, he seems a real character. When...
Readers who had pictured Wall Street as the centre of deep antagonisms and dark conspiracies may be astonished to find it described by Vanderlip as almost pastoral, the abode of gay spirits whose deepest animosities could be dissipated by a hearty slap on the back and a few frank words...
You further state that "unless actual discrimination in athletics is proven, there is no valid reason for American athletes to refuse to compete in Berlin". A month ago Tschammor-Osten announced that the highest award in German sport could in the future be acquired only by Germans of Aryan descent...