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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this point on, Made for Each Other proceeds to turn its prefacing remark into a bare-faced lie. In the theatre, the "importance" of a character depends solely on how much he matters to an audience. By the time John Mason, having reached his office, tiptoes in to ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Brenda Frazier's beauty is not only "skin deep." It is illuminated by a mentality, a depth of feeling, and a strength of character unusual in one so young, so beautiful and so universally admired. . . . Does this . . . suggest that imprisoned in this tiny body is a typically feminine heart that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A JOY FOREVER | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

This is the statement that I objected to allowing interest groups to be represented in the National Labor Relations Board because it "would swing the balance of power too far in favor of the employer." My objection to the proposed reconstruction of the Board along interest group lines is based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Great men are of two different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATER PATRIAE | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

The Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Redbug-on-a-Slide | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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