Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years of age, dressed in a brown coat and grey flannels, the Harvard scion has found it a simple task to remain incognito during his excursions through the Yard and elsewhere--even during a guide trip. In every detail of appearance or manner, from his deliberately complacent way of talking to his habit of shoving both hands deeply into his pockets, he might be taken for a "typical" Harvard man. He was even indifferent about Harvard itself until the tentacles of the Tercentenary entwined him, and even now refuses to display any enthusiasm for the University...
...wide, but delighted even more by the intelligence of the non-Harvard tribute-givers. Thanks be to Almighty God for such enlightened outlanders, especially for that genial man, Dr. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Granddaddy of Harvard as Father of John. The Vagabond, entertained this summer in princely manner by the generous master, admonishes the authorities to be kind to him. Listened with all ears to the music of the "Tercentenaria," but wondered to myself if it will sound so cheery when aged a hundred, as does the good "Fair Harvard...
Famed is the Half-Way Book in which a bed-ridden Class Secretary, the late Clarence Day, explored with pen & pencil the Class of 1896, two score years after its graduation from Yale. Was College Worth While?, more factual in matter, more aggressive in manner, shatters the sentimental aura that overhangs most U. S. college reunions and classbooks...
...addition to the carrying of ordinary suitcases and trunks the Railway Express is the most efficient manner of sending larger and bulkier bundles to and from Cambridge. It is estimated that the normal work of this agency is quadrupled when Freshmen and upperclassmen all over the country get underway for their respective colleges...
...life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions, decides to fake suicide, swims...