Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The answers largely depend on the character of Francisco Franco, and last week as Spain was about to begin another chapter in her long history, the plump, enigmatic little man who will boss it-strangely colorless for a Spaniard-and the men with whom he has surrounded himself attracted the...
*The American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd now, as in 1913, is 15.
For this year Dae, the livest radio character in France, is starting a variation of the treasure-hunt idea, in which he drops token coins in hiding places around Paris, directs listeners to them somewhat as Uncle Don tells U. S. youngsters where the family has hidden their birthday presents...
Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour...
Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word...