Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riggs. Against the Government's famed Louis Brandeis and Samuel Untermyer, the Riggs bankers sent young, obscure Frank Hogan. He proceeded to put the case on the world's front pages by issuing subpoenas for ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, putting them on the stand as character witnesses...
"In the course of the past 50 years," went on Dr. Beard, "I have talked with Presidents of the United States, Senators, Justices of the Supreme Court, members of the House of Representatives, governors, mayors, bankers, editors, college presidents . . . leading men of science, Nobel-Prize winners in science and letters...
During the 26 years that Richard Wagner brooded over The Ring of the Nibelung, no one character caused him greater anguish than his heroine Brünnhilde. Time & again he flung down his pen and paced the floor. He recalled in his autobiography that once "my courage failed me completely...
*So familiar, even to non-opera goers, is this Wagnerian character that the name Brünnhilde has passed into U. S. speech as depictive of any large beefy woman, usually with a big head of hair.
Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years...