Johnson recalls Canvey in his youth as "a cowboy town," with dirt roads and wooden bungalows built on reclaimed marshland beside an oil refinery.
Seattle Times
(Feb 4, 2013)
a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect
As the suffrage campaign became a major public issue, commercially produced novelty ornaments often caricatured suffragettes as being unfeminine and "haggardly".
The students at Williamsburg Charter High School in Brooklyn are taught how to conjugate Latin verbs, analyze Shakespeare sonnets and decipher Arthur Miller plays.
New York Times
(Jun 28, 2012)
After evading capture for three months, the spy was imprisoned, tortured and eventually shot by the German Gestapo at Dachau concentration camp in 1944.
a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)