Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birmingham, Ala., Senator Black's onetime law partner, who had been hired as special counsel for the Lobby Investigation. Said Attorney Harris: "It is difficult to conceive of any injury at all resulting from obedience to the [Senate] subpoena unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference...
...cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire the actors...
When Max Beerbohm wrote Zuleika Dobson, his farcical satire on Oxford (1911), he included in that gallery of light-hearted caricatures a character who still stands as the type - at least to English eyes - of the U. S. Rhodes Scholar. Abimelech V. Oover, like his brothers, was an admirable and good-hearted fellow, but there was something about him the English found oppressive. "Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify . . . and their constant fear that they are being...
Turner, as always, contributes delicately chiseled foregrounds with darkly dramatic backdrops; "Davenport" is typical of this type of work. He shows us another phase, however, in "Fish" and "Death of the Whale"; here he is full of motion and light, with very little emphasis on form...
...President Eliot once said that the appreciation of music was not characteristic of the type of evolved Puritan usually to be found in the Harvard Corporation. If we admit that the evolution has been slow, it is nevertheless true that the Pierian Sodality, which 100 years ago had to rely wholly for its inspiration from those ancient springs its name was taken from, has shown us that music, both instrumental and choral has won a recognized place in University life. It is therefore fitting" Mr. Greene concluded, "that the Sodality and the Glee Club should have an active part...