Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond, at least, the month of April will close in a manner amply compensating for any unpleasantnesses it may have been responsible for in its younger weeks. It is a rare occasion when he is privileged to hear lectures on two subjects as attractive to him as are the two feature numbers on his program for today. The first is at twelve o'clock, when Professor Davison will speak on Old English music and illustrate his talk with selections. This is the first of two such lectures; the second to be given at the same time on Thursday morning...
...masterly presentation of facts concerning the taxation and finance of the national government -to use, through no fault of his, in a rough and tumble mass meeting in a local campaign. The crowd grew restive, stamped, clapped, applauded at the wrong times, and conducted itself generally in a manner highly discourteous and disrespectful to the speaker. Finally he stopped and pleaded with the audience, which then permitted him to finish his speech-which he did hastily. Like many another resident of this city, I came away from the meeting with a deep sense of shame that an honest and sincere...
TIME'S footnote said: "A 'facts and figures' campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
...have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
SWORDS AND ROSES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues...