Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution of the House appears based upon the idea that Lincoln would, if he had lived, have prevented the horrors of reconstruction." Dr. Tyler advanced two reasons for doubting this: 1) the manner in which Lincoln waged war, involving the wholesale destruction of lives and property; 2) "the instability of his character, which made him incapable of standing up against any real opposition...
...that the colleges' presidential poll is ended, undergraduates inclined to politics have a chance to show their skill in treating the more awkward subject of international affairs. Amherst, Cornell, and Michigan have been selected for assemblies of student representatives, who will proceed, in the approved League of Nations manner, to discuss such matters as disarmament and the tariff...
...figure. In fact, if one's window be open to any of the vagrancies of early spring in Cambridge, one will find the Jester in a delightful mood, albeit a few of the stories and jokes he has for you are distinctly not after his best manner. There are, however, a sufficient number of high spots in his present repertoire to render the ensemble a product of very high quality, so high in fact that the number, in the reviewer's opinion, ranks well at the top of Lampy's efforts for the year...
...that there are not more of these rondeaus, ballads, and other charming whatnots of the facile versifier's art, which might have taken the place of a few of the prose selections; for some of the latter are--well--as we have said before, not after his best manner, which is putting it charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty-one and two, while "Light Cast on Moving Tragedy" very nearly approaches these in its unworthiness. The rest of the prose is at least up to a satisfactory level, though none of it deserves particular...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...