Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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The Supreme Court's docket reflects the trend of the times. When John Marshall was chief justice, a preponderance of the cases involved fundamental constitutional issues between states and Federal government. As the nation developed the emphasis shifted more and more to the economic field until today the Court...
One, Two, Three! has for its principal character one Nordson (Arthur Byron, warden of The Criminal Code), motor tycoon, whose young U. S. guest has secretly married a taxidriver. It takes Mr. Byron upwards of an hour and a great deal of telephoning and ordering about to get the driver...
Mr. Gilhooley. This play stands as proof that a novel can be successfully translated into the dramatic form. Frank B. Elser, longtime New York city-editor of the Associated Press, author of one worthy book called The Keen Desire, onetime (1904) co-editor with George Jean Nathan of the Cornell...
Imaginary Dr. Van Loon met Painter van Rijn when Rembrandt's first wife, Saskia, took her last illness. Though she died the men became cronies. Rembrandt's popularity as a portrait-painter had gone; his artistic experiments, his unconventionality, his debts had roused the commercial conscience of the burghers against...
Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been...