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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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>Unhappy, quarrelsome parents make unhappy, naughty children. ("Young perceptions invariably probe straight through to every aspect of character with the penetration of X-rays.")

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blue Book for Parents | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Kierkegaard's literary method was to invent characters, let them work out their ways of life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Dane | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Let us underwrite England's war efforts by mobilizing her assets and by accepting an economic partnership in the resources of that Empire without which the world cannot be adequately reconstructed. This will give us the means of dictating peace terms of whatever character we see fit.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCERPTS OF SPEECHES TO GRADUATES | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Johnny Green has set this mad frolic of college life as students dream of it to the varied pace of a sparkling and melodious score. Swingtime "Go 'Way Blues" and sweetly-sentimental "I Heard You Were Lovely" attest to his composing versatility. Other songs we are likely to hear more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

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