Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to these achievements, you have signalized in fitting manner the defeat of the proposal to give the Student Council authority to enforce good manners upon you; stolen a march on the Lampoon; and, if the last few, numbers of the Crime have received proper circulation. You have probably demonstrated to all the world that the day is past when Harvard men were gentlemen. With all due applause. Wendell F. Fogg...
...loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate at the end, was hardly to be expected. One looked for a more realistic, if less dramatic ending. The chief characteristic of the book is the manner in which it sustains the interest even through a seant two hundred pages. It is literally impossible to put it down, once started, which is a high tribute seldom deserved...
Schneider has coached a football team at the school during the past year, and reported that cheering and encouragement of any noisy manner were frowned upon, since it was regarded as unsports-manlike...
...There is nothing routine about these productions of familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less...
...about the stadium! Was it not sufficient that the omnipotent athletic publicists were able to get so much printed about the matter without having tried to bring it to the forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...