Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greater in bore if not in range than Nominee Curtis was Big Gun Borah, who was sent to boom in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. He, too, used Prohibition projectiles chiefly. There was a noticeable departure from the close reasoning, which usually marks the Borah manner. Perhaps because he felt that understanding diminishes and emotion increases below the Mason-Dixon line, Senator Borah voiced phrases and protestations such as the following...
Soon these aerial epicures, in a manner time-honored among ocean voyagers, settled down to the business of doing justice to some of the 2,000 bottles of beer, 200 quarts of. champagne carefully selected from among the many which producers had fought for the privilege of presenting to them. But not for lone. In spite of zealous storm detouring, a gale blew up that rent the port stabilizer, buffeted the ship. A reduction of speed became necessary while repairs were being made...
Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...
...Manhattan prominent artists cudgelled their imaginations for the perfect perfume bottle. Art, business and chemistry had effected a triangular combine which was expected to benefit all three. The Art Alliance of America had sponsored an invitation competition for perfume bottle designs in the modern manner. This was held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver...
...sale of this program in conjunction with a Boston evening newspaper may or may not be a clue to the identity of its editors, who, like their printers, have not seen fit to acknowledge responsibility in the usual manner. There is something delightful about the underselling of an official program; when, however, the program is useless for its purpose in the mind of the purchaser, it becomes misrepresented merchandise. As such it is punishable under law, whose enforcement, as a preventative measure, the CRIMSON suggests to the city of Cambridge...