Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elaborately worked sketch for the last was in the Parrish show last week. All the other pictures were new but painted in the old manner: pink rocks in a blue mist, spinach-green trees in a theatrical amber light, all ticked out in the most minute detail. True to his promise five years ago to paint no more nude girls on rocks, there are no figure studies in the present exhibition...
...years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even when a lingering photographer caught him greeting Mrs. Roosevelt with a kiss on his return from a 1934 vacation trip...
...boats had been swept away. Because the survivors knew the torrent of wind and water would soon be back, from the opposite direction, they abandoned the boat, clung to a heap of coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous manner so did Terangi and the more important part of his tree's crew. The grateful Administrator's wife helped him on to his interrupted escape, then fished untiringly until she pulled up a pardon...
...execution. One is thus compelled to note that "End of Summer" is an amusing play which makes the mistake of sliding off the plane of pure comedy and getting unnecessarily mixed up in the complexities of problems that properly lie beyond its scope. Fortunately Miss Claire's charming manner and the excellent acting of Osgood Perkins and the assembled company go far in restoring the play to a more comfortable level...
Capitalist. The one remarkable man on the new Board is the governor appointed to the four-year term and designated by the President as chairman. At 45 Marriner Stoddard Eccles is lean, smallish, nervous, intense. In manner he is pleasant, impersonal. Like many another New Dealer he is convinced that in money management lies the salvation of Capitalism...