Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, the irrepressible Editor Daudet reacted in a manner far different. He might have called a meeting of the French Royalists who are as strong as or stronger than the Communists. Instead, he took pen and concocted for L'Action Française a leading article so full of sly, telling digs at personalities in the Government, so meaty with tidbits of Daudeterie, that Paris, figuratively speaking, exploded with forgiving mirth...
Arrived at Scrobesti, King Ferdinand took action in a manner absolutely to stagger Bucharest. He ordered the Minister of the Royal Household to present himself suddenly at a Cabinet meeting and demand the resignation of Premier Averescu. The order was obeyed. General Averescu picked up a sheet of notepaper from the table before him, dipped pen in ink, wrote out and signed his resignation. His startled ministers did likewise. Then came the real bombshell. Bland, the royal emissary announced that His Majesty had called to the Premiership Prince Babu Stirbey...
DREAM'S END?Thome Smith? McBride ($2). A young poet meets two women. One of them, whose name is Scarlet, is a passionate lady who lolls about showing her teeth in a provocative manner while she wears clothes which are nothing if not voluptuous. The other, name of Hilda, is a radiant and ideal embodiment, with "something unearthly about her." David, the poet, finds that whereas Hilda realizes for him a dream of beauty, the lower depths of his nature are called to the surface by the warm, red lips of Scarlet. The conflict goes on until Hilda...
...Harry" to all. Third principle of Rotary is "that every member should be addressed preferably by his first name or a nickname in some manner to indicate the close, intimate friendship among Rotarians...
...least, the movement takes away a certain amount of glamor from a favorite field of writers of boys' stories of the Putnam Hall variety. It marks the passing of romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place...