Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The German character not only craves size, but loves neatness. The 1,500,000 Germans who rally at Nürnberg each year could not possibly be housed or hold their mass festivities in the town itself (normal pop. 450,000). As a result, in the past five years a...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly...
The first half of his six-year term, said President Quezon, he had spent laying the Commonwealth's political and economic foundations. The second half, he would devote to "a spiritual revival of the Filipino people" by formulating "a sort of written Bushido."* Then he proceeded to do something...
When the latest and most successful reincarnation of this popular character last week placed on trial a leader of the most ill-famed U. S. political machine, small wonder that Western Union alone filed 40,000 words to the newspapers of the U. S. on the opening day.
The opening 36 pages consist of slum vignettes, gangrenous clinical talk and last-ditch confessions derived from Celine's medical practice in a Paris charity clinic. (He still clings to this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These...