Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly praised. Federal discouragement of trusts is nothing now, to be sure, but it is a pleasant novelty to study the basis of the present manifesto. It will be remembered that Roosevelt wielded his "big stick" against the steel and the packing interests in something of an ostentatious manner. Always quick to cater to popular notions, the President found a new road to the people's heart in his campaign against the trusts...
...Hasty Pudding Dance will be held on Friday, March 12 at the club house on Holyoke Street. The dance will begin at 9.30 o'clock and last until 3 o'clock. It will be arranged after the manner of a rustic dance and all members of the Hasty Pudding and Institute of 1770, graduates included, are invited...
Copley--"Hay Fever", at 8.20: A comic study in rudeness done in an unusual and highly refreshing manner...
...rigid directness about this story, a dramatic intensity achieved without sensational devices, that makes it notable. Mrs. Millin's is a disciplined intelligence that can find important work close at hand and perform its task without ostentation. Her book is a sort of Main Street in the Greek manner. There is severity, clarity, grave pity...
...many respects the modern audience governed itself in the classic manner handed down from generations of hanging. Despite twentieth century civilization, the etiquette of old-fashioned justice held sway. After the noose had done its work, the body hung long on view for the edification of the populace. Babes in arms were hoisted high on their mother's shoulders that they might see their first dead wrong doer,--no doubt with the worthy expectation of a consequent decrease in crime twenty years hence...