Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent graduates who are likely to be able to give money ... on some sort of terms with nearly every recent graduate, except perhaps purely domestic Jews and Irish." Mr. Whitney was pictured, in a study made illustrious by the late Barrett Wendell, as an "electric person" to whom all manner of Harvard officials, from the President down, enter for weighty conference or valued advice. Of Mr. Whitney the pamphleteer cried: "What meteoric rise is this! . . . All the requisites but age, and President Lowell does not resign...
...slum, a demirep said to me: 'Make my hair curl like the locks extraordinary of your mother.' I was at that time supporting my good maman; her hair was famous in the neighborhood, beautiful auburn hair that nature had twined round her head in a manner which I have received credit for inventing. Well, I re-versed the tongs and curled the hair of this saucebox as she desired it; her friends came to me; soon I opened a new store; in two years Nellie Melba was among my customers. Four years ago the barbers of Paris erected...
Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols '99, will probably preside at the debate, which will be held in Symphony Hall on Thursday night, October 28 The debate will be conducted in the English manner, whereby the decision is rendered by a vote of the audience, rather than by selected judges. Edward F. Gray, British Consul General, and Dean C. N. Greenough '98 will act as tellers...
...Family" is a comedy, a straightforward he-man affair, with no subtlety, no Arlenesque sophistication. The players all say what they mean, and they inflect their voices in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
These figures might have been different if the scrimmaging had been conducted in a more formal manner. But the ball was frequently taken from one team and given to the other at critical points in the play, and the whole spirit of the scrimmage was more that of a practice workout, than of a real game...