Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...corporation is forever enjoined from acquiring in any manner any voting interest in more than one company in any one line of business in one section or community in the U. S. Directors of two or more competing concerns may not be in the management. No use may ever be made of stock ownership, interlocking directorates or any similar means to reduce competition among companies selling food stuffs...
...stuff of romance is here, but not in its best manner. Messers. Bishop and Brodeur have a brave story to tell; it is a pity they have not told it more skillfully. They have chosen to adopt a pseudo-heroic style. Their characters prate mightily of great deeds for mother Britain, messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that...
...miracle that her happiness lies only in becoming a bride of the Church, "His Bride," and so enters a convent. Miss Hurst has very definite ideas on the emotions through which Laura progresses to her ultimate goal. These she reveals in a most powerful but, to mind, unpleasant manner...
SINCE the days of E. Rider Haggard's orientally imaginative novels, weird, mystical, and scented with the unfathomable agelessness of Asia, there has appeared scarcely another novelist whose taste for the exotic mystery of much infinities has carven a readable story. Quite in this older, manner Mr. Merritt has harked back to Ancient Babylon and spun an interesting and curious, if not so successful, fantasy. Unfortunately the latter's hero makes his first blow in a luxurious apartment in contemporary New York and after demolishing an archeological monolith from Babylon, is whisked back a score of centuries without the slightest...