Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred Allen all contribute their bits with considerable success and both Paul Whiteman and Rubinoff do bits in the gubernatorial contest about which the story is centered. Powell is drafted by the party bosses to take the place of their drunken candidate who is played in the true manner of the nickleodeon by Raymond Walburn. Powell sings his way into the hearts of the voters and then gains their confidence by exposing his own backers as a bunch of crooks. It seemed to make no difference to him that he had promised to keep the arrangement with his backers confidential...
Harvard has a reputation among other colleges for intellectual preciosity, but the Editors of "Common Sense," both Yale men, have let Harvard take the tap in this case, not from college spirit, but because they feel that Professor Carver's manner is too pedantic...
...Poling was called to Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) and from its pulpit began his weekly radio talks. By 1929 Prohibition again needed champions. "Dan" Poling resigned from his pulpit. He used his rosiest platform manner on the Republican convention of 1932. then stumped 31 states by airplane, insisting to the end that the country was dry. Without a pulpit, he has since devoted his energies to turning out what he calls "smashing editorials" in the Christian Herald...
...have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first...
...alumnus comments, "Ah ha, so this is the honorable and exalted calling to which our college boys are going nowadays. Let them show their supreme erudition in their manner of approach to our doorsteps on sleepy mornings. Let their footsteps ever be light and their horses well behaved." It might be added, "perhaps this is only a part-time job for a graduate student...