Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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At Madeleine's trial, therefore, the jury must balance her character against the Frenchman's. The prosecutor tries to convince them that Madeleine was sufficiently cunning and ruthless to have committed the crime, while the attorney for the defense raises the suicide theory.
An amparo (literally: protection) is a Mexican legal confection with elements of habeas corpus, stay of execution and injunction, all rolled into one. Anyone who feels that he has been or is about to be the victim of unjust police or court action may apply for an amparo. By its...
In one letter to wife Minna, demanding separation after 14 years of bickering marriage, he further uncloaks his character. ". . . You cling to the peacefulness and permanence of existing conditions-I must break them to satisfy my inner being; you are capable of sacrificing everything ... to 'have a respected position...
Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that...
¶ Jofroi, a prewar Pagnol comedy based on a story by Jean Giono, proves the brightest thing in the package. Jofroi (well played by Vincent Scotto) is a hidebound old peasant, suspicious, ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a...