Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snatching away from French producers by his tariff slash benefits which he had just conferred by devaluing the franc. Apparently the Premier's idea was to keep prices in France from rising by letting in cheap foreign goods. He thus played the card of Devaluation in a manner exactly opposite to that of President Roosevelt whose objective was that prices should be made to rise...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Hunt Diederich started first to be a painter, put in several years producing sentimental canvases in the Barbizon manner. Hunt Diederich achieved his first popular success with a 15-ft. bronze of two gamboling greyhounds. It won a mention at the Paris Autumn Salon, much notice in the press, was promptly bought by Robert de Rothschild...
Dorothy Arzner is short, stocky, with a quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...
Increased enrollment, including more than 300 students in the new survey course Music 1 has in a paradoxical manner driven the Department once more "to the wall". The University has not got the material for study at ready disposal. There has never been an adequate music library, either in crowded Paine Hall or in Widener where lack of complete files makes many valuable scores unavailable...
...skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know how it's done. It's trick photography...