Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caste. Cosmo Hamilton, brother of famed Journalist-Novelist Sir Philip Gibbs and of Novelist A. Hamilton Gibbs, also writes books and plays over which the giddy serving maid may smack her lips. His are Michael Arlen's people done in the more obvious, juicy manner of a movie scenario. Even when he has a problem which presumably he feels to be formidable, he must deal with it in cream phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid...
...silver and gilt, charmingly wrought; the chalice (goblet) bore a 32 carat diamond, gift, stated the smith, of a Mrs. Howe, lately deceased. Years ago she had ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner of her life gave her little opportunity to practice. After her death she wished that prize diamond of hers to be used in some tangible form for religious purposes...
...life seen her mother "dressed up"; to Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little of her vocal power and none of the grand manner that projected every little gesture to the furthermost corners of the house...
...long but never conquered. He still gazes up at glittering, obviously unattainable pinnacles. Author Williams has written without affection a convincing, saddening story of a man who loved beauty and romance but knew not how to find it. His book gives evidence of much painstaking research in the manner of crabbed Sinclair Lewis. Unlike Author Lewis, Mr. Williams has used this research not to indulge in bad-humored thumpings but to speak accurately of events which occurred during the lifetime of his Henry Beeker. The result is a good novel which recalls sundry highlights of the past 40 years...
Last week the Mexican government revived this closed incident in a surprising manner. At Mexico City Señor Alfonso Carvioto, Mexican ambassador to Guatemala, issued a statement in which he roundly flayed Ministress Kollontay for flouting diplomatic tradition by "attacking the government of Mexico on her return [through] to Moscow...