Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Central character of Children of Strangers is a beautiful, chaste mulatto girl named Famie. Trouble begins when she spies on a red-headed white camper across the river, is seduced by him, but keeps going back. Her romance ends when the sheriff kills her lover, who is wanted for a...
As everyone in Whitehall knows, Sir John owes his presence in the Government not to any general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order...
Near Boyertown, Pennsylvania's first iron forge, in 1733 an Englishman named William Bird earned two shillings sixpence daily cutting wood. By 1740 he had accumulated enough capital to set up two charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of...
If New York had the highest general excellence, Illinois' 18 exhibits showed the greatest heterogeneity. For the first time Easterners had a chance to see Carl Hallsthammar's fine Venus in Red Cherry, winner of the Logan prize at the Chicago Art Institute, and widely hailed by liberal...
Years ago an astounding character named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised...