Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground that his election had already been investigated and reported on. He begged a further hearing. He received it. But new evidence as he presented failed to alter his investigators' original decision. Then came the final rejection, giving Illinois notice that it must fill the vacant seat in some manner other than the manner it had approved in the election of Smith...
Friends of Myron Timothy Herrick were confident that he would deal with these problems in a characteristic manner...
Gemini (twins), May 22 to June 21, governed by Mercury. "Most Gemini natives try to walk in two directions at once." They work on all manner of subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante...
...bedraped, the interior of Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week went drydock. A 62 foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all manner of gadgets ranged themselves agreeably on the shelves. The 23rd annual Motor Boat Show was declared open...
...advent of frankness and the departure of chivalry, both characteristics, generally speaking, of the present age, are the targets for Miss Cabot's shafts. The cause of our lost manners, our disrespect for women, has been discussed before, and though it has in most cases been done in a sensational, non-scientific manner, the subject is perhaps of more significance than such Elinor Glyn articles would lead one to believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death...