Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of the East, the conversations, held in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, begun by long and polite exchanges. Even then the point could not be broached directly. A long, a very long list of topics must be discussed before the word "ransom" could be even mentioned by inuendo. Thus the parley went on for some days...
...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...
...hissing bombshell has been tessed into the camp of what he calls the "middle-aged moralists" by the declaration of the vice-chancellor of Oxford that the most agreeable quality of the modern student is his excellent deportment and beautiful manners. Disclaiming the idea that his views had been given a rosy bias by the environment of Oxford, he denied the implied strictures of the saying that "Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and sausage...
...book-buying public, and make the readings which Professor Copeland has collected during his connection with the University available for the classroom as well as for the library. The original edition of the Reader was not designed for classroom use, nor was it treated in an elaborate manner. In the new editions these requirements...
...such a manner, Senator David I. Walsh, speaking last night before a group of about 150 students, at the Harvard Union, referred to the 1928 presidential campaign. Senator Walsh paid no attention to the stock issues of the campaign, utterly ignoring matters pertaining to A1 Smith, the League of Nations, or prohibition, but he railled at the Republican party, its methods of operation, its organization, and its corrupt practices...