Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merely from a selfish standpoint, one wonders at TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries...
...campaign that has no terminal facilities, that has no deadline. It is a fight that is going to go on until the workers in the steel industry have the right to organize in unions of their own choice and decide conditions of their own working life in the same manner as workers in other industries...
...bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game. American Legion questionnaires had estimated that the 3,500,000 recipients would spend 30% of the money toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters lay anxiously in wait for what Frank Brock of the New York Better Business Bureau described as "the biggest potential sucker list of all times...
...agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
...Attorney Morris Ernst was equally resourceful. Appearing as a "friend of the court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means of transmission cannot affect or diminish...