Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed to me that Judge Thayer at that time exhibited his prejudice and bias in the most notable manner. On this morning he either came to the table where I was sitting and asked if he could have breakfast with me, or he called me to his table and asked me to have breakfast with him. He immediately began to talk again about the case and pulled out of his pocket...
...resolutions. It advocates less restrictive dogma on the part of the club open house system, and believes that the Committee has undertaken the right methods of correcting the situation which now prevails and which is unpopular with many club members who feel bound by law in such a manner that they have no privilege of inviting friends outside their club in for meals. This is, however, a matter entirely for each club--as the Committee has pointed out--and the sole merit, as far as the university as a whole is concerned, in this part of the investigation is that...
...Some common basis of interest"--varieties of which the Report cites as musical, journalistic, dramatic, is an excellent manner in which to introduce men to each other, but it does not constitute the basis of a lasting friendship. Cliques are as common in, organizations devoted to music, dramatics etc, as in any gathering of men--not excepting the present clubs themselves...
...would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty. For instance, Jones contributes to the May 4 issue a first rate professional cover; the kind of work that outside magazines are glad to buy. But Jones shows the defects as well as the virtues of the professional manner. He might have reversed his two characters, showing the student looking into the bulging skull of the professor, and with similar results. Similarly, the writer of the leading editorial views with alarm the CRIMSON'S baseball games with its esteemed contemporaries in Cornell and Princeton. He would have been more...
...whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions in a manner of an unfaithful cloak-and-suit drummer, and to make these mediocrities important by virtue of the astounding music into which the chemistry of genius transformed them...