Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a Mrs. F. Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J., after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch...
...Observers thought that seldom before has a great statesman spoken so frankly and unashamedly in the manner of a shrewd, traveling salesman...
...George Wolf, Manhattan architect, had good reason to be vexed at himself after permitting F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant, shifty blackamoors, to hornswoggle him in this manner. Last week Detective Finn had good reason to plume himself after detecting that the garbage-leggers were F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant...
...business; nor permitted Lis name to be advertised or published for pay as the author of books or articles on golf of which he is not actually the author. He has not received any consideration because of his skill at the game; nor has he acted in a manner detrimental to the best interests and the true spirit of the game...
Last week the U. S. G. A. began to investigate the case of George J. Voight of Washington, D. C., who was recently ousted from the District of Columbia Golf Association because he had "acted in a manner detrimental to the best interest and spirit of the game." Mr. Voight's "detrimental" deed was giving up the repairing of typewriters for the U. S. Department of the Treasury and accepting a position as secretary to Edward B. McLean, potent publisher of the Washington Post and playmate of the late Present Harding...