Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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System of the syndicate was simple and efficient. Every Sunday or Monday each prostitute would telephone her booker who would tell her at which "house" she was to spend the following week. Girls were shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...that the grammar which is presented be more advanced so that there will be instructive value to the grammar lessons. To insure the proper concentration on the part of the students, we further recommend that grammar tests be given in French C every other week in the same manner that the occasional reading examinations are now presented...
WILL OSBORNE, the orchestra leader, has only a slight connection with Yale. He once sued Rudy Vallee, Yale Alumnus, for a sum running past the $200,000 mark. Rudy, Will averred, had copied his crooning from Will Osborne. At that time Will's voice and vocal manner was so much like Rudy's that the radio public could rarely tell them apart...
...tactics of retaliation seem to be as crude and as clumsy in this instance as they have been in the past, and the whole affair is not likely to increase his prestige, or what is more important, his votes next Fall. By showing his anger in this vindictive manner, he is letting the people of Massachusetts know that the sting of criticism has sunk deeper that was expected. The old adage of "It's the truth that hurts" would seem to apply in this case, for His Excellency has taken the matter very much to heart...
...Scoundrel" is subpoenaed for another appearance in Boston. Noel Coward breaks his brittle cracks on the skulls of his foils in the approved Cowardly manner, for the major part of the picture. Then, most touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special...