Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters...
A civil engineer, a lawyer, a student of botany and ornithology was Edwin Bryant Crocker when he arrived in California in 1852. Before he died in 1875, fat, goat-bearded and wealthy, he had served a term on the State supreme court, helped Leland Stanford build the Central Pacific Railroad...
Geoffrey Dawson, almost anonymous as a public character, may plausibly be rated among the score of men (and Queen Mother Mary) who really rule the British Empire. For small Mr. Dawson is head of one of Britain's greatest institutions, editor of London's Times. The importance of...
Editor Dawson's "Letters to the Editor" department is the most famous in the world. Here the ingredients of British character are revealed, stewing with incredible seriousness over topics ranging from the fate of Empire to the palatability of black-grape jelly with pickled pork. The department runs four...
This week this grim stronghold serves as the setting for a memorable first novel in which able descriptions of prison life about evenly balance the confused accounts of the breakdown of a sensitive prisoner. The story of Number 957 (name: Alexander William Mansell; sentence: life servitude; eyes: brown; height: 5...