Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike all other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...really don't mean that. Out of the five horrid ones there are two that are pretty fair. One is the Misses Kouns who sing songs of old in a very sweet way, and the other is a dance act by Fowler and Tamara. These latter do all manner of things with the castanets and some dancing besides. We could say a few things about the other acts being Fowler or about not putting off till Tamara...
...Jack Osterman whose patter is pretty dreadful, and Miss Sylvia Clark who may possibly have feelings so we just won't say anything. The good act is an acrobatic one in which one Pete Michon succeeds in throwing himself about the stage in a manner never to be equalled again, unless he comes around for a return engagement...
...artistic merits of the type of music represented by Krenek's opera are sure to be unsettled for a long time; but this very difference of opinion and the debatable questions inspired by it give pungency to every performance of works in the new manner. The old has played to nearly empty houses; the new has at least regained interest...
These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...