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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ultrasmart among the Newcomers are: Mrs. Joseph Leiter. Vivacious, handsome, domineering, she gives fabulous parties in her enormous du Pont circle home in the manner but not the quality of the Astors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lion- Tiger-Wolf | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Today he is 35, 5 ft. 7 in. in height, already portly. His chin is dimpled, his cheeks cherubic, his eyes small and brown, his hair a wavy reddish brown - and his tongue a restless lance of dispute and invective. Still rustic in manner, if not in thought, he keeps the countryman's water bucket and gourd dipper prominently displayed in the executive offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Louisiana's Kaiser | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...vengeance on account of his execution or imprisonment-without knowing which had occurred-moved to join the Wuhan revolt. As Marshal Chiang and his army bore southward upon the rebel areas, the Cantonese colleagues of General Li forgot their indignation and made a neat right-about, in the famed manner of Chinese generals, loudly proclaiming allegiance to President Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wu's Coup de Corde | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...hundred years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Centenary | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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