Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Senate! Senate! Where is the Senate? ... The Senate sits here and is being emasculated. You sit here with this political tyrant and generalissimo dyed with the stains of corruption. . . . You sit here and let this character pull off of us everything that means that we are a United States Senate...
Author Kingsmill does not believe that Dickens was "a simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable...
André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise...
Roosevelt has recognized the choice and has emphatically voted "no". Misguided, uninformed, and unscrupulous opposition groups have overridden his expressed desire. He has gone too far to retreat now. Even this magical manipulator of ideas and men cannot reconcile the irreconcilable. Unless re-consideration is forced in Congress, the presidential...
Dr. John Dewey, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Columbia University, gave a radio speech recently, for the WEVD university of the air. In his speech he maintained that the capacity of teachers to produce their "goods,"--intelligence, skill, and character among their pupils, had been curtailed during the depression. The...