Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transcript. His political experience was acquired as newshawk and editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune where he thumped long and loud against Philippine Independence. His first political victory was won four years ago when he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, his great name and pleasant boyish manner netting him a whacking big vote which was repeated two years later...
...send a boy on a man's errand. ' Boy or man, Cabot Lodge has run his political errands effectively in the past year. Driving about the State, sometimes traveling 1,000 miles a week, he showed the people of Massachusetts a friendly manner, a warm smile, proved himself a first rate speaker...
...Reina had been changing hands for days in desperate engagements between Red Militia and the Whites (TIME, Sept. 21), an entire fleet of German bombing planes with German pilots and German bombs went into action and Generalissimo Franco's ground forces occupied Talavera de la Reina in a manner sufficiently decisive to have suited even the Duke of Wellington. After this victory Madrid was only 45 miles from Generalissimo Franco's forces...
...introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest, and from it you may gain an idea of the manner of all the rest. It is "Tiurib, Rumble, and Others v. The King and Queen"--Fish Royal. Tinrib, Rumble and others bring suit against the King and Queen for the removal of a whale which has been cast ashore near the town of Pudding Magna. The whale, according to ancient decree...
...other hand, this tendency to bow to convention and unreasoning College opinion does not exist. Harvard feels that at least where indulgence of the 'play instinct' is concerned, the individual should be given ample opportunity, instruction, and facilities, but that he should make his own decisions as to the manner and extent to which he shall avail himself of them...