Word: traits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...
Cruelty is a very serious trait in a child and should, say's Dr. Kanner. "be examined and treated with no lesser care and expertness than one would examine and treat pulmonary tuberculosis or rheumatic endocarditis...
This international hermaphrodites is not a now family trait. The son of Johann Georg von Wendel, who fought for the German Ferdinand III blossomed late Christian de Wendel, who was a follower of Charles IV of Lorraine. For a good period of years the family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were...
...given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...
...liquor presents an entirely different problem. It seems to be an American trait to try to break laws. This trait must be reckoned with. Now the Massachusetts Legislature, in its capacity of serving the people, and therefore, youth, proposes to forbid the sale of liquor to those under twenty-one. In other words, at the very stage in a young man's life when he must be allowed to solve his own problems, through no fault of his, his sense of proportion about liquor will be warped...