Word: traite
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...ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that he cannot remember the names and numbers of the courses in English, despite the fact that he holds the rank of senior professor in the field. He has even promised that someday...
...Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when walking down a street...
Unfortunately the British trait of muddling through is more effective in international politics than in light entertainment. Where Head Over Heels in Love differs most markedly from a U. S.-made musical comedy it is hard to say. Possibly it is just where its director, Sonnie Hale, felt surest that he was on the right track, as in the scene in which his wife, Jessie Matthews, sings something called Don't Give a Good Gosh Darn with an enthusiasm that betrays only too clearly her exhilaration at the thought that she must sound just like Ruby Keeler. Through...
Although it rolled off Soviet Government presses nearly a month ago, the new Russian Constitution was still last week being kept the darkest of Bolshevik secrets. Curiosity is a major Russian trait and inquisitive tension throughout the Soviet Union was becoming terrific. With everyone fairly panting for news a few leaks oozed at last from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described...
...maintained and that their development will proceed even on restricted lines. The field of the private estate work has been reduced by the economic situation to a very low point during the past few years, but the desire to have better and more attractive surroundings is so inherent a trait in this country that it would seem to be within reason to expect this phase of the landscape professional work to return to somewhere near its former amount within a few years