Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold LeClair Ickes lived in Winnetka, a leafy lake-side suburb of Chicago, for 17 years before Franklin Roosevelt made a national character of him as Secretary of the Interior. If Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago were less absentminded, he might have advised his friend Mr...
Simon & Schuster withdrew from sale two highly-praised novels by Jerome Weidman (I Can Get it for You Wholesale and What's in it for Me?). Reason: their principal character, Harry Bogen, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi. Also withdrawn was...
Newshawks, who had not had such a story in a coon's age, went to Brooklyn to call on a character named George Vernard, who had represented one of Coster's dummy agents and was also wanted by the police. They found a car being packed with luggage...
Dr. Alexander's piping, to an intent ear, hit some strident notes. Although she declared she is seeking "a renaissance of religious consciousness" in the U. S., by her candid admission the purpose of that renaissance would be simply to put new life into Capitalism. A religious revival, said...
Manhattan members of the Russian Nobility Association were outraged to discover their president, Prince Alexis Obolensky, playing the part of a Soviet Commissar in the musical hit Leave It to Me, under the stage name of Alexis Bolan. Given the choice of quitting office or his job, the Prince said...