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Word: personality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife got him a lawyer, swore that she still wanted him-black or white. But if he were proved to be a Negro (Virginia's definition: "every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood"), he would be guilty of miscegenation-a crime punishable by as much as five years in the penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Dream | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...over he is stealing an occasional scene from his elders. Given his fantastic American-Canadian-English lines that come up with such expressions as "jolly swell," Van Patten doesn't waste a syllable and is master of the double take. He has the difficult duty of acting a ludicrous person with a concrete and serious problem and he performs it without slipping into schizophrenia...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Asked how he determines whether a person is a Leftist or not (he declined to discuss anyone in terms of Communism), Griffin explained he reads the person's works, discusses the person with others, and looks up articles about whomever he is studying...

Author: By Alex C. Hoagland jr., | Title: Chicago Tribune Reporter Hedges on Mission to Hub | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...crash, manages to fly again to prove his devotion to Stalin and the motherland. What more could a composer do? A good deal more, apparently, if he was to satisfy the music-loving Central Committee. Said Culture and Life: Prokofiev's music for the Tale of a Real Person was "in screaming contradiction with the text . . . hard on the ear and lacking in melody for singing . . . really insulting for a Soviet audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peter & the Wolves | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Deduction. In Palermo, Sicily, Giovanni Villa, who has spent four years trying to get himself declared officially alive, complained that the only person convinced thus far is the tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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