Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear Senator Schwellenbach: You will recall that on the occasion of my appearance last week before the Special Committee of the Senate appointed to investigate lobbying activities, of which you are a member, you questioned me at some length on the subject of whether my services had been billed to...
The awards vary from a minimum of $200 to a maximum of $1,000 in the Freshman year and $1,200 each year thereafter depending on the resources of the recipients. In selecting the winners, the committee considered originality, initiative, leadership ability, and character as well as scholastic ability.
If there is any fly in the scented ointment of Jean Harlow's current celebrity, it is her occasional dissatisfaction with the character which her appearance and her mother, by a sort of conspiracy of nature and circumstance, have built up for her. Her determination to achieve a form...
...Nowhere characterizing her husband, or writing at length about him, Anne Lindbergh tells a few anecdotes that reveal him as a matter-of-fact, friendly, laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going...
With her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Now in November, Josephine Johnson impressed some critics as a writer possessed of fine sentiments and a talent for description rather than of a strong imagination and a firm grasp of character. Her farmers and their boys and girls, tense, neurotic, esthetically inclined individuals whose...