Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Such playboy feats are all very warming to the neutral U. S., where Superman is the No. 1 comic-strip character, a hero to millions of youthful muscle-worshipers; but to a country at war, like Canada, this reduction of a life-&-death struggle to the absurdity of a comic...
Added Journalist John Thomas Flynn, member of City College's administrative committee: "He is a man of the highest character, whose morals will compare favorably with those of Bishop Manning."
Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him...
"In trying to anticipate the verdict of history, we can be sure that Calvin Coolidge will not be remembered as a great constructive President, like Washington and Jackson and Lincoln and Wilson. Nor does he belong with the weaklings, with Pierce and Buchanan and Grant and Harding. His place is...
In a nationwide radio address Mr. Roosevelt stressed the non-political character of his farm policies. But woven through his remarks was the theme that agricultural interests have achieved more in the last seven years than they would have under a Republican administration.