Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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. . . My reason for writing is a photograph of Mr. Wendell L. Willkie, which is included in the number of Aug. 26. It is astounding that any magazine could print such an obviously retouched and apparently intentionally distorted photograph as a true likeness of anyone. Furthermore, the misleading caption in which...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described...
"Japan's foreign policy will be renovated," said Japan's sickly little strong man, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, soon after he stepped into power last July. Prince Konoye's new Foreign Minister, tall-talking Yosuke Matsuoka, put the matter more plainly. Said he: "The Japanese race rolled...
Hemmed in by succession States, revisionist, expansionist, but surrounded by neighbors powerful enough to hold her in check, Hungary smoldered for 20 bitter years. Her first small chance came when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia. Last week came Hungary's great chance. She took it-but...
But a hurricane brings out the hoofers in their true colors, convincing Vermont that outward appearances of ill breeding are false tests of character.