Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition of the pre-holiday season--the Faculty Teas. This afternoon and on successive Friday afternoons in the Living Room of the Union the members of the various departments and their wives will meet whatever students appreciate this opportunity to mingle with their faculty in an informal, extra-curricular manner. A chance is thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this way--for even the most formidable of faculty lions is lamblike at ten. To the meek, the bold...
...Leon Campbell, of the College Astronomical Observatory staff, will deliver a 15-minute radio talk from Station WEEI, beginning at 6.45 o'clock this evening. Following the public educational program adopted by the Observatory staff early this fall, Mr. Campbell will speak in a non-technical manner on "Eclipses of the Sun, Moon, and Stars...
...matter will be discussed in the same manner that "Collegiatism" was handled two weeks ago. There will be three speakers on each side, to speak five minutes apiece. Thereafter the meeting will be opened to discussion from the floor...
...framework for their pleasantries is inconsequential. Mrs. Cheyney is suddenly discovered in society after a somewhat mysterious widowhood in far Australia. Two eligible lords promptly propose marriage, and are somewhat nonplused to find that she is a pearl-thief masked by a shrewd overlay of charm and manner. She repents in time, of course, to select the more attractive of her noble suitors...
...Elsie Janis was born in 1889; so she is not old enough yet to be writing memoirs. These are just a few essays thrown together in book form-her stage patter put in print. It does not stand the test very well. She is engagingly frank in her manner but not very refreshing. Her "platitudes and plongitudes" are done with the usual zest, but they do not get anywhere. They do not read much better than the stuff of a newspaper reporter trying to be "racy." But those who love her on the stage will probably be satisfied with...