Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner makes a difference at the White House. Several weeks ago a well-dressed young man walked briskly up the White House Steps, nodded amiably to the guards, pressed through the front door and strolled unchallenged into the dining room where President Hoover was alone. There he dropped his fine manner, began to talk rapidly, wildly. Realizing his danger before this stranger, the President conversed courteously with him, humored him, until a guard entered to lead the intruder away. A mighty shake-up occurred among the President's bodyguards...
...Trent's last Case", the RCA photophone, is as good a picture as has been shown in this house this season. Raymond Griffith solves the crime in entertaining and amusing, if not mystifying manner. And Marceline Day is the heroine,--if that means anything to anyone...
...longer can the assurance of the old refrain, "All's quiet along the Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
...editorial in the carren; Harvard Alumni Bulletin, entitled "Multiple Loyalties" which comments on the recent election of Edward L. Katzenbach, Princeton '00 to the presidency of the Harvard Club of New Jersey, the question of the relations existing between Harvard and Princeton is treated in a most cordial manner...
...venture to express the hope that as a corollary to this attitude the delegations of other countries will in like manner make the maximum of such concessions as they find possible. I do this in no spirit of bargaining...