Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...robust man with a brisk and busy, if unruffled manner, a native of Delaware, a lawyer by training. At 25 he gave up practice at the bar to enter the State Department. He has several times been Assistant Secretary of State, several times represented the U. S. in diplomatic conferences. But his service in the State Department has been disjointed. When he was only 31 (he is now 65) he accepted the chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University?the first chair of its kind in the country. He was made a judge of the Permanent Court...
Critics, pleased by her attractive manner, by her knowledge of the stage, were forced to admit that her voice, though not unlovely in quality, is frail, that her vocal technique is frailer, that she was frequently unfaithful to pitch, that she is not up to Metropolitan standard...
There was Mr. Jollyco, who was the soul of politeness and geniality when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed...
...club is keeping to the policy it has pursed for many years. That policy, inaugurated by Dr. Davison, is to sing the best music in the best manner. Whatever struggle there may have been at the outset to get Harvard College undergraduates to sing such music, it very soon transpired that they preferred it to any other. The club is a cross-section of the college; it has demonstrated its value not only in the college world but in the general world of music, to its influence is largely due the very great improvement in standards among college glee clubs...
Applications received after tomorrow will be filed in order of their receipt, after all other requests for tickets have been met. The batch of applications which are made on time will be looked after by lot in the regular manner...