Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father: I do not say that there was. I do not keep dates after the manner of men. ... In recent years, I have Condescended to write...
Father: From a Historical point of view, we may speak after the manner of men - as Spirit without a BODY, when the Spirit moved out on the Face of the deep, according to the Bible. Professor: When was that? Father: According to Bible History - Four Thousand and Four Years. B. J. better known...
...such interesting people as the Shelleys--Shelley appears to have been generally more solicitous for the child's welfare than Byron was. "And did you see Shelley plain?" Allegra did many times. Her death brought genuine grief to Byron, who loved her as the image of himself, after the manner of so many egoistic parents. The Marshesa is justified in emphasizing this point...
...find in his tutorial work from February to May an interesting purgatory. The work should by no means be made a burden because so many Freshmen carry five subjects as it is and the tutors themselves are already well occupied. A few books covering the field in a cursory manner would at least give the Freshman a fairly accurate picture of what his chosen subject was like before he plunged into it in earnest the following autumn...
Your appreciation of "Kitty" was vivid and colorful. However, although I recall his leaving his Shakspere* class in the manner you describe, I do not recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way. The former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...