Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibraltar last week Bandmaster Barnacle became the star witness at the celebrated court-martial of two officers charged with having complained, "in a manner subversive of discipline," against the alleged insulting conduct and awful oaths of their superior, peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, April 9). The two court-martialed officers are Captain Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Commander Henry M. Daniel. In support of their contentions Bandmaster Barnacle took the stand, braced himself and testified that he personally had been called a series of unprintable names by Rear Admiral Collard. The names, it appeared, all began with...
...Chicago the Incredible, the approach of April primaries brought about a recrudescence of the sort of things that have made the city world-infamous. Politicians hurled Chicago language of stunning crudity. Gangsters hurled Chicago "pineapples." The Chicago press hurled its disgust in a manner suitable to mass circulations...
...than delighted to have you and Mrs. Davis as our house guests during the period that you are in Cincinnati. We would deem it a high honor to house such distinguished and popular people. You, with your magnetic personality and brilliant attainments, your devoted wife with her charm of manner and her most beautiful personality, which has endeared herself to all with whom she has come in contact, and making her society irresistible. . . . We have a very attractive and beautiful home, the house being surrounded by beautiful grounds, artistically laid out and not wishing to boast, it is considered...
...January 12 Admiral Collard threatened me in the presence of several guests, that if I did not make Commander Daniel do his duty in introducing people to each other at a dance he would make him do it. I thought his complaint unjustified and his manner of address improper...
...chance to make a cinema that would be as obnoxious as Abie's Irish Rose (play). But Producer Carl Laemmle forfeited the chance by the dexterity of his workmanship. He depicts Jews, Irishmen, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Russians mingling in a U. S. city in a plausible manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write...