Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of speaking, Frank B. Willis has stepped into the shoes of one President already. When the Senate seat of Warren G. Harding became vacant when its occupant moved to the White House in 1921, Willis was appointed to fill the empty chair. He has held that seat ever since, active in committee work, but lacking the spectacular record of some of his colleagues with Presidential aspirations...
Those ambitious for the Presidency have discovered two very effective means of avoiding the unpleasantness of declaring themselves plainly. One method is that of silence, in the manner of President Coolidge and Mayor Lodge of Detroit: effective where the field is small, and the opposition has stated its platform. Some candidates are pussyfooting in this way; others have found a more subtle scheme, in which the procedure is, first, the careful study of the issues raised and supported by the few who have been audacious enough to speak, and second, the choice of an issue not yet covered...
...artists". There were views of mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn't get any attention...
...certain instructor, irritated at the cautious progress and boasting manner of his flying pupil, decided to test the old swimming hole belief. They took off on an instruction flight in a machine with dual controls, one for the instructor and the other for the student...
This is the question raised by the Brown Daily Herald on Harvard's new football policy of considering the Yale game as the only permanent one on her schedule. And the question, put in such a reasonable manner challenges an answer of equal sincerity...