Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet to the garrisons of Malta and Egypt. There is even talk of closing the Suez Canal." Censor Wilkinson found no fault with a long sequence depicting the manner in which the League of Nations Union had polled more people than had ever voted for a British party, to discover that 11,000,000 were for the League, 10,000,000 were in favor of supporting its will by economic sanctions and 6,800,000 were willing to impose military...
...than $100,000,000 worth of investments under its supervision. But by last week its founder was ready for another venture. Mr. Young moved again, this time to another 42nd Street address, the Lincoln Building, where he became president of Young Management Corp. Mr. Young's shy, quiet manner is deceptive. He is a master salesman as well as a brilliant analyst. Only 34, he lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When...
...speak, Violet Van der Elst was booed down. "How would you like your daughter to be cut in little pieces?" shrilled an inquisitive voice. Sweet Violet again tried to speak. "Aw, get out!" roared the crowd. Police hustled her away, charged her with "driving through a crowd in a manner likely to endanger life and limb." She was held in $250 bail. Meantime, inside the jail the black flag was run up and the lifeless body of the Hindu doctor was cut down, buried in an open pit of unslaked lime...
...Three Women" tells the story of the Communist Revolution in terms of the lives of three girls whose maturation is intertwined with the events of 1914-1919. Their blood-red songs electrify a barroom full of drunks in stirring manner, and later the whole bunch does a through job of massacring some White first-aid workers. There is thus very little of the tender or the suave, but the proletarian vigor is abundant...
Dean Sperry finds 100% employment of his graduates, Professor Menhinick of the Regional Planning Department of the School of Design discovers not only full employment, but an unsurfeited demand for more technicians, Dean Hudnut of the School of Design writes in this issue in a generally favorable manner, and Dean Donham of the Business School finds 90% employment of his graduates throughout the depression. These reports are highly significant and especially Dean Donham's, whose position makes him uniquely qualified to feel the pulse of business activity...