Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Judge Jr., or rather used to like him, for the original Judge Jr. is at present editing "Life" (Now 10 cents!--Advt.) instead of Judge, then you may like this collection of mixings they are gotten up in his same so-called collegiate manner which automatically rubs most normal people the wrong...
...they are done in a new, modernistic spirit; but there is too much "esprit de propagande politique" in them. In Italy educational films are put out under the authority of the government by the Institute National Luce. Mussolini is very much in favor of films done in a realistic manner and sees the cinema as an effective means of international "rapprochement...
...year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...
...Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could wish for anything better in the way of representatives. . . . Curzon was born grandiloquent. . . . His unique achievement was to combine dignity with humor...
...terms of intimacy with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right to speak of him in the ordinary manner that one refers to common human beings. He is above all. Even his title is not to be taken in vain. It should only be pro nounced with awe and reverence...