Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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But he was Japanese. In his character were the seeds of present-day Japan. A story is told that one day in his youth in Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay...
The Japanese Government is in the hands of extremists. One faction-the Army group-wants to seize the prize of the Indies; another wants to overthrow the Emperor and seize power for itself. Foremost among the latter is a dark character named Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who has been involved in...
Joseph A. Brandt, a rawboned, red-haired Indianan, is a character straight out of The Front Page. His family wanted him to be a preacher, but by the time he had worked his way through the University of Oklahoma and got three degrees from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he...
Last fortnight the University of Oklahoma Regents elected this prodigious character as the university's president. First Oklahoma alumnus to hold the office (salary: $10,000), 41 -year-old Joseph Brandt, a Lutheran, will succeed BaptistBible-collecting William Bennett Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the...
From Granville Hicks to Professor Latourette, from Littauer to Adams, from "The Fall of France" to "The Character of Loki," the billboards and lecture halls are jam-packed.