Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yet the claim of the book is a great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days...
Theirs was the fourth of 52 such smuggling cases pending against Catholic nuns and monks. All 52 raised Nazi diehards to a fine frenzy, for the principle at issue struck at the very fundamentals of Nazi philosophy. Here were Germans of exemplary private character, vowed to poverty, who continued to...
"I wish to add immediately and in the most explicit and solemn manner that we will send out all the soldiers we believe necessary. And no one can take upon himself the intolerable presumption to dictate to us concerning the character and volume of our precautionary measures! . . ."
Applicants are judged on their scholastic records, their demonstrated interest in government and politics and their qualities of character and ability. Anyone who thinks he may qualify should write to the Committee of Admissions at the Institute, 1001 Fifteenth Sreet, Washington.
Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally...