Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world press was just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...
...commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether they and the judge gave Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial, it would seem that the executive power was used merely to confirm the judicial determination of the question before the court, and not exercised independently in the manner contemplated by our frame of government with its separation of powers. Sincerely yours, Edward Dumbauld...
There was "old Colonel Mulberry Sellers." Nominee Smith used him constantly. Example: "General Lord [of the budget bureau] holds up the data in his hand like this, and in the manner of Colonel Sellers who said: 'Nine million people in Africa have sore eyes. Buy this little package' he says. 'By our industry we have saved...
Romans have thrilled to all manner of races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
When Lord Melchett landed in Manhattan, last month, no sophisticated observer believed he would repeat Father Ludwig's career and start building a factory to make soda-water. He had, in a manner of speaking, quite enough factories already. Less than two years ago, he had linked Brunner Mond Co. with Nobel Industries, Inc. (explosives) and British Dyestuffs, Ltd., to create England's largest holding company. As chairman of the board of Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd. (I. C. I.), he presides over a corporation with an authorized capital of nearly...