Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little Irishman (Mickey Walker, onetime welterweight champion) knocked a nice black man (Tiger Flowers) down on his haunches with a smack on the jaw. Up jumped Flowers and began to lace the countenance and torso of Walker with a long left hand in the manner of a man painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago...
...declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage Ethel of recent years, to which an Ethel-drawn audience responds with laughter, palpably content. Percy Hammond: "Miss Barrymore . . . slender, fair, 36 and super-charming...
...volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful subjective pieces, some not too happy reflections in the classical manner and several lyric miniatures of priceless rarity, "The Toadstool's Defense," "I Heard the Marvellous Music of the Birds" and "Rain Children," which opens with the lines: With all its little silver feet...
...memorial service at the First Parish Church tomorrow for President Eliot is a fitting tribute to him who was for a great part of his life one of its most active members. It brings up in emphatic manner the question, why has the University held no such service...
...weeks ago an editorial was printed in this column condemning the manner in which football rallies were conducted. It aroused a certain amount of interest among the students body but nothing ever became of it. All of the letters received in this office censuring the editorial were from rearoused alumni. There seems to be an idea permeating the student mind that everyone is entitled to his own way of thinking and that there is no use of trying to change his opinion. We do not object to this type of tolerance but we do think that the resulting indifference...