Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that Count von Bernstorff is now a leading exponent of The League of Nations. Last week, at Geneva, he did his best to mediate between U. S., French, Italian and Japanese representatives who were squabbling about disarmament as members of an important League committee. With a voice and manner gently reproving, Count von Bernstorff called upon the Great Powers to disarm here and now down to the minute Post-War armament of Germany. Up and down Unter Den Linden, Germans commented on the Count's speech with ponderous approval, seemed unstirred by the supreme irony of the situation...
Respectable Brooklynites grew vexed at the slurs which the Crime Commission made on the Red Hook children. Said a priest of the neighborhood: "When I look at these beautiful innocent little children, so quiet and nice in manner, I have a feeling that they are entirely too gentle and soft for the rough world that awaits them...
...Cobb is not, never has been one to do things quietly. So, while waiting, he gave advice to able Eddie Collins, ancient teammate, then in the process of batting; appraised the opposing pitcher's ability in acid terms; discoursed on this and that subject in a manner familiar to American League players...
...this operetta in the present manner, we have brimming beakers, tavern brawls, heralds issuing defies, and vagabonds made kings for a day, wooing beautiful ladies pursued by grasping Brugundian nobles. Francois Villon once again lives as the Robin Hood of France; Louis XI consults his astrologer; bibulous rogues hoist their beakers while their voices are raised in fulsome drinking songs; Scottish Guards march boldly; and court ladies make one regret the passing of gallantry in favor of equal rights...
...cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time is in the grand, kaleidoscopic manner of Dumas, overcast with the mysticism of Jewry. Imported after a wide success in Europe, the book has not been equaled this season as a foursquare, full-blooded, Jehovian chronicle...