Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TAMMANY HALL-M. R. Werner-Doubleday-Doran ($5). A biographer of eccentricians (Barnum, Brigham Young), Freedom, suffrage, peace. Mr. Werner reproduces all the war-paint and peacetime paint, all the cardinal sins and probable virtues of a famed phenomenon, in a manner calculated to sell books...
...where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect. She had met some storms on the way, but she conquered them almost as easily as the 59,957-ton Leviathan. Virtually unsinkable, she was built to tease all manner of weather and unruly seas...
Wanted. A virgin from Louisiana comes to Manhattan to see about her inheritance. People want to help her, but they also want to help her in a manner ill befitting a virgin from Louisiana. Repulsing them, she finds temporary shelter in a vacant Park Avenue apartment, at the suggestion of a Negro maid who knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners...
...best general was able to declare independence. Only 13 years before, all the land and 90% of the population was owned by a small oligarchy of whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...
...door said Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices at No. 170 Broadway jammed with speculators. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1919 when the German mark was behaving in a dizzy manner. A bankrupt. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1923 when the German mark went shooting down to nothing. His firm failed for more than $7,000,000. He paid creditors $5,000,000 of what he owed them with his own fortune and with some money that the Mixed Claims Commission...