Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The King of Great Britain, feeling the need of friends and funds, sent a letter: "To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greetings! Whereas it appears to us expedient to nominate some person of wisdom, loyalty, diligence and circumspection to represent us ... know ye that we, reposing...
¶ Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the...
Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at...
Chief witnesses of the Bergman suffering are Joseph Gotten, her surly husband, and Michael Wilding, a foppish gallant who plays her father confessor. The evil housekeeper, a stock character made popular by Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, is well played by Margaret Leighton.
Letting the sobs fall where they may, misty-eyed Author Gallico (who now lives in England) seems to be trying to explain why so many G.I.s enthused over, and sometimes married European women. Jerry's Long Island fiancee "combined such perfection of physical beauty, flawlessness of character, uprightness, and...