Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donnell stated that there would be no substantial changes from the makeup of former Red Books, but that special effort would be made to render each article of real interest to all Freshmen. Special emphasis will be placed upon sports...
...cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...
...atheist." Author Pearson is not the first modern biographer to adopt the thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup in turning him against Congress, his onetime heroes Washington, Burke, Robespierre, Napoleon...
...Actress Cornell's performance, spectators found it in her customary grand manner. In a sarong and dark makeup, she was perfectly at home in another of her bravura roles which please her devotees best and which have led her privately to observe that an actress of her stature cannot afford to appear in a good play...
...verin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving...