Word: demeanors
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Henrik Shipstead, 45, Senator from Minnesota, a second-generation Norwegian, stands 6 ft. 1 in. in his stocking feet. A mighty, clean-cut Viking, both in demeanor and politics, is he. As a young dentist, he read economics and sociology. In 1916, politics claimed him. Twice defeated, for Congress by Andrew J. Volstead and for Governor by J. A. O. Preus, Mr. Shipstead climbed into his Ford in 1922 and snorted on to Washington ahead of Frank B. Kellogg, who drove a Pierce Arrow in that Senate race. On arrival, Mr. Shipstead was put on the Foreign Relations Committee...
...syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...stunned. My fiery demeanor became compassionate. Gently I lifted her to the windowsill. Soon she regained consciousness; flew away, wobbly...
...Should one of the contracting parties, despite its peaceful demeanor, be attacked by a third power or by several other powers, the other contracting party shall preserve neutrality...
...name of Yale has been put on the balance scales rather unfortunately, for the interpretation put upon the vote of the University should have emphasized that Yale 'but stooped to truth' as it exists throughout the colleges of the country. Yale is not singular in sentiment or demeanor and the testimony of the recent referendum should be taken as universal rather than unique...