Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Banker Morgan: "I want to deny in the most clear manner that I can that such a thing was ever thought of by us or done by us at any time in any way. That is one of the discreditable actions which is foreign to our history and it is foreign to our tradition, and we never did such a thing in our lives." Fortunately for the Morgan partners, a cablegram showed that they had offered the British a credit of up to $100,000,000 to help keep sterling from slipping...
Feng Flayed- Members of the present Chinese Government cannot very well be taken to pieces by a Shanghai editor & publisher, but what Mr. Woodhead might have written can be surmised from his manner of cutting loose about recent Chinese leaders who are barely over the threshold of retirement, such as the famed "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...with jeweled crowns and girdles, feathered hats and helmets, flowing wigs and well-worn shoes. From her rigid retirement in nearby Bronxville, Mme Olive Fremstad at 63 had emerged to sell the glamorous trappings which represented her years of triumphs. She presided over the exhibit with all her oldtime manner, fingered with wistful pride the silver cape she had worn as Elsa, the shiny helmet that had been hers as Brünnhilde, the regal white train in which she had swept the stage as Isolde...
...passed as she was to wither them with a glance. Once she suddenly discovered that her name had 13 letters, forthwith had herself billed as Olivia Fremstad, changed back again to Olive when she realized that Richard Wagner had 13 letters in his name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet...
...York or the Metropolitan Opera, both avid for her famed Isolde costume. Most passe singers are more pathetic than impressive. But Fremstad defied pity when she stood among her relics. She wears pince-nez now. Her greying hair is piled high on her head. But the grand manner was still hers when a reporter queried her about the Elsa mantle, asked its age. Her eyes snapped then as they did at the opera house: ''What difference does it make? It is Elsa, Elsa, Elsa! It lives its own life...