Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens butchered? I am not speaking of sporadic disorders but of cases in which the Government itself is unable to function. It is a principle of international law that under such circumstances another Government has the right, I will not say to intervene, but to interpose in a temporary manner to protect the lives and interests of its nationals...
...speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form for such...
Sensitive and excellent direction by E. A. Dupont, of Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW?Shakespeare mortalized in the manner of motion picture farce (TiME...
Facile Andre Maurois, biographer in the new imaginative manner, brings a foreigner's sympathy to Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, enigma, suspect; gauges his ambition, lists the obstacles, counts the defeats, shows that Disraeli learned to temper his brilliance with patience until at last, aged and broken, he attained "the top of the slippery pole" of politics...