Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that your reference to notables is at times impertinent and your liberty with diction runs into excesses. I also do not like the red border and feel that I would much rather have the Literary Digest as it covers the subjects covered by TIME in a dignified manner and withal fills my wants...
...replied the publisher, "I don't even know how to say that correctly; but I do know how to do it; Well, to continue, I spoke French, but not in the manner of these grave gentlemen who sit down in front of a glass of water with their noses plunged in the notes which they read. I spoke a great deal, with my hands in my pockets, and after the talk I jumped off the stage into the audience to chat...
...Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...
...dining hall for club tables will be constructed, as had been planned, it was also announced, unless students express their desire for it in an emphatic manner in the near future...
There are occasional vivid phrases of description, but the writing as a whole is poor. The book is divided into small sections, after the manner of Sinclair Lewis; one of these sections is as follows...