Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the extreme decentralization of the American system, the general disreputable manner in which polities are carried on throughout a large part of this country has much to do with the reluctance of the more highly educated classes to enter the maelstrom of machine-ridden government. It is no idle quip when political observes say time and again that American politics is no place for a gentleman...
...problem of the class of citizens attending the prep schools is the problem of the United States itself. A victim of a grotesque system of government cannot by any manner of reasoning be named as its cause. America must realize, as England has long done, that members of the socially privileged classes have as much to offer the government as any other group of the population. Provincialism and gas-house polities have left their sears on this country, and until such failings are overcome, it is both futile and unfair to compare this country's schools with Eton and Harrow...
Smoking incessantly and speaking in a mild, pleasant manner, the Bruins' captain said that he had seen both the Harvard Varsity and Freshman squads in practice at the Garden. While admitting that there can be little comparison between the 80,000 Americans and the 3,000,000 Canadians who play hockey, Shore feels that there are plenty of Americans, among them certain Harvard pucksters, who "ought to make good if given a chance...
...Bride Comes Home" is another Claudette Colbert picture in what has become the traditional Colbert manner. It tells the story of a pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they...
...name rhymes with barren. He likes to play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John Marin there & then...