Word: trait
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt camp received another set-back last week when the 25 potent Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land frontpaged an editorial entitled "Give Us Alfred E. Smith." Excerpts: "Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt possess in common one dominating trait. Faced in a pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
...Harvard's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing. Donner millions might thus have been allocated to investigations in Dr. Cushing's neurosurgical field. Or they might have been marshaled against infantile paralysis, from which Governor Roosevelt has suffered. But a strong Donner trait is immediacy of action, and cancer killed his own son, Joseph William Donner...
Child of Manhattan. There is a curious phonetic trait, found in certain parts of Brooklyn, which causes people to substitute the sound er for the sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property...
...better, perhaps, at the tricks of their trade than many of their confreres, the prestige of the contemporary Barrymores rests upon one trait which they have in common: a magnificent stage presence which they inherit from their father, the late Maurice Barrymore, who was born Herbert Blythe and took his stage name from an Irish peer who was one of his ancestors. Where John Barrymore is elegant, faintly satiric and irrepressibly nonchalant, his brother is curt, surly, emphatic. At 53 (three years older than John), Lionel usually plays the roles of elderly but vigorous personages. He exercises his prerogative...
...Mimicry was another well-developed trait, and after every Harvard game the boys had a lot of fun parodying the Cambridge accent, even those with very little English attempting the broad A At that however, Harvard was the Indian idea of perfection and, whether on the football field or in the schoolroom, anything very good was always commented on as 'Harvard style'". --Harvard Alumni Bulletin