Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of their pleasure-loving habits, fostered at college, which seriously interfere with their tackling a job in an earnest manner...
...most large postoffices, due to the business mail at the end of the day, the percentage after 6 p. m. is as high as 50% to 70%. †Dr. O'Callaghan is a tactful scholar. In the following manner he cheers both fundamentalists and evolutionists : "YOUR GRANDAD WAS EITHER A MAN OR A MONKEY-Take your choice-but if you write to the MAN give us the STREET and NUMBER, and if you write to the MONKEY, give us the TREE and LIMB." His title of "Doctor" is no nickname. He is a graduate of the medical school...
...character. ... At one of his meetings, when someone called him a 'liar,' he promptly leapt from the platform and knocked him down. . . . But, somehow, not even this episode succeeded in making Mr. Amery either famous or infamous. . . . The reason is not obscure. His public form, contrary to his private manner, is hard, arid, vitriolic. No humorous legend attaches itself to his name, and no kindliness of spirit or gaiety of expression graces his acts or utterances...
...opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over the aunt...