Initial Characteristics

1. Popular Bishop	Phillips Brooks
2. Fought Every Wine	Frances E. Willard
3. Serio-Comic	Samuel Clemens
4. Fearless Navigator	Fridtjof Nansen
5. Won England’s Greatness	W. E. Gladstone
6. Little Misses’ Admiration	Louisa M. Alcott
7. Military Suitor	Miles Standish
8. Rollicking Bard	Robert Burns
9. United States General	U. S. Grant
10. Moral Light	Martin Luther
11. Eulogizes Antipodes	Edwin Arnold
12. Tamed Ambient Electricity	Thomas A. Edison
13. A Cunning Delineator	A. Conan Doyle
14. Handles Christians	Hall Caine
15. Rabid Iconoclast	Robert Ingersoll
16. Histrionic Interpreter	Henry Irving
17. Serpentine Belle	Sara Bernhardt
18. Equality Benefits	Edward Bellamy
19. Just Mother’s Boy	James M. Barrie
20. Frames Many Chronicles	F. Marion Crawford
21. Lord High Celestial	Li Hung Chang
22. Original, Witty, Humorous	Oliver Wendell Holmes
23. Nipped Bourbonism	Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Surgeon, Writer, Metrician	S. Weir Mitchell
25. Intelligent Zealot	Israel Zangwill
26. Collected Delectable Writings	C. D. Warner
27. Curiosity Depicter	Charles Dickens
28. Cuba’s Benefactor	Clara Barton
29. Eminently Zealous	Emile Zola
30. Character Revealed	Charles Reade
31. Caused Revolutionary Discussion	Charles R. Darwin
32. Joyous Lark	Jenny Lind
33. Fearless Nurse	Florence Nightingale
34. Conspicuous Senator	Charles Sumner
35. Ever Frolicsome	Eugene Field
36. Suffrage Brings Advantages	Susan B. Anthony
37. Pens Lyrical Dialect	Paul Laurence Dunbar
38. Always Loyal	Abraham Lincoln
39. Great Deed	George Dewey
40. Won Recent Surrender	W. R. Shafter