Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harshest blow at the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin thus far, Punch last fortnight cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...
Those who favored lustier interpretations of the part were frankly disappointed at Gielgud's refusal or inability to scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...
...very great because there is relatively no middle class. The Catholic Church is a tremendous factor in the Fascist cause because it owns approximately one fourth of all the land in Spain. It is because of this condition that we find Spanish peasantry pillaging churches in much the same manner that French revolutionaries burned the homes of the wealthy nobility. The same situation of tenant-farming that we have in the South, exists in Spain under far more extreme circumstances...