Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Rear Admiral Julian Latimer, his 15 U. S. war craft, and his 4,680 U. S. marines were policing Nicaragua in such a manner that President Adolfo Diáz (recognized by the U. S.) was safe in his capital, Managua, while President Sacasa was being starved out for want of supplies on the West Coast. President Diaz, presumably advised by Admiral Latimer, cabled a long peace plea to the U. S. public, proposing that his regime be maintained until 1928, and that an election then be held under U. S. supervision...
...each on each to the twilight skyline of a great city. Rather are they, as the jacket represents them, windowns of various shapes, patterns, and sizes, in a jumbled and overlapping mass. For, although Mrs. Woodward's volume deals with the business world, it does so in an autobiographical manner which puts quite out of mind the simulated order of mahogany desks. The authoresa, has found in her business career a succession of human ontacts and exhibitions of ingenuity which suggests that the day of standardization in pay, promotion, and practice still lies in an indefinite future. In this adventurous...
...most striking feature of Mrs. Woodward's story is by all odds her manner of depicting people. In the first place she observed them carefully. In the second, perhaps because she herself came from the environment of poverty, she tried to see them in their respective environments. In the third place, she narrates copious anecdotes with an evident zest. From the tyrannical Mrs. Johnson who played the lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing...
...similar to the one inaugurated three years ago. The essential point in this method is its absolute impartiality. Rooms will be assigned by lot, preference being shown to the larger groups. The rooms available are expected to hold approximately 380 men. The committee will allot rooms in such a manner as to hold the maximum number of applicants...
...Will you," he whispered in a sinister manner, "commit a Crime...