Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive is conducted for the benefit of the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library, an institution which each year supplies a large number of students with used text-books at the nominal charge of five cents. This year, about 1560 books were loaned in this manner by the library...
...find it on the police docket. And that there may be no misunderstanding. I am not the man who stuffs birds, nor the Crime colyumist who stuffs Harvard. I came in here while the real poseur was out astonishing the natives of Hanover, and I haven't the manner, no, nor the acquaintance with Central Square duennas, required to write this column...
None the less, the many obvious grounds of dissent at Geneva last week among Germany's onetime enemies, gave Count von Bernstorff an opportunity for polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place...
...Gilbert Frankau, with an old Etonian necktie,* a charming manner with ladies, a gallant War record and a resolute hatred for Socialism. His utterances in the U. S. arent the late British strike were clarion calls to the banner of Premier Baldwin and gave the definite impression that he, Frankau, was one of Baldwin's most important political colleagues and counselors...
...Times' questionnaire has thus proved that the majority of Democratic Committeemen willing to express an opinion do not care to have their party repeat its previous performance. To students who care to view the questionnaire in a detached manner, it exhibits man, the political animal, re-acting unscientifically on the basis of a single instance. Even those who do not react stand pat only on the ground that they have not been sufficiently horrified...