Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground. On stage, Ethan Frome is not quite so painful. The Davises have had some mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized its usefulness, thus loses some of his customary forceful directness. Ruth Gordon, a noted giggler, makes the stage...
...with its paltry hundred millions, try to make its expenditure more efficient and more valuable. Million dollar ideas require millions of dollars, and if President Conant's prediction concerning the "static" period which lies ahead of us comes true, this money won't be rolling in in the manner to which Harvard has become accustomed...
...Lord! this business doth chill my spine and I did wish the over with it lest I show my heart over much. Indeed, methinks the actor Hampden did employ the grand manner too much and unlike the little leaf which a breath of wind doth cause to fall, he did go down more like a log. But all in all this play did bring me great pleasure...
There are far more drawings and water colors than oils in Mrs. Rockefeller's collection. This has little to do with the fact that drawings are cheaper than paintings. All artists know that the best way to study the manner and character of an artist is through his unretouched drawings. And drawings take up little room. Most of the pictures that Mrs. Rockefeller has bought for her own enjoyment are crowded into her specially lighted gallery on the seventh floor of the old Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...
...downtown in Louis ville somebody says : 'There goes Mrs. Effie Rowley. Isn't she willowy!'" She is frightened only by Indians (one of whom she suggests lynching), wrinkles, and being caught not fully dressed up to the occasion. She squeaks and coos in the approved Kentucky manner, gives Romance her blanket approval and does not mind how outrageously her daughter behaves so long as she is spared the details. Actress Douglass, whose heart is obviously in her work, conclusively endears herself to any member of the audience who has a Southern female relative when, faced with...