Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also, further your writer continues, "Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner." I wonder if the writer has seen Service for Ladies, Gentleman of Paris, Serenade, all made within the past year...
...greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...
...scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders, Marty Callaghan and Everett ("Pid") Purdy- Callaghan tobacco-chewing, closemouthed, bearing himself with a martyred manner before umpires; pert Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds. But baseball games...
What the Cleveland bishop said, every Catholic prelate has in some manner paraphrased. Memorable was a 1925 speech of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: ". . . By such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of immorality the situation forebodes. . . . Birth control is heralded because the poor . . . are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast . . . a more offensive insult. Defectives, physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ. The forces of evil . . . would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children of God." (TIME...
...architects who have been selected for the difficult and important business of giving Williamsburg the appearance it had 200 years ago are the comparatively obscure alliance of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, of Boston. Their previous works are few, but they illustrate an adroit understanding of the Colonial manner. The Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., The Waban School in Newton, St. Paul's Church in Newburyport, Mass.-these are neat examples of the trim New England style which indicate that the architects will be able to manage as fluent an interpretation of the more expansive symmetry that was popular...