Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris" by French Fascists. "The plan of attack includes assaults upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre. "In the early hours of the uprising a certain number of summary executions are foreseen. On the black list are most radical former Ministers. The manner of execution will be to throw victims from the Pont de la Concorde into the Seine." On the fateful day a cold Paris drizzle was enough to send all dissident elements into their favorite cafes, blowing on their fingers and puffing with indignation. At the last minute the so-called "Popular...
...traitor." "And do you think him also a swine?" asked Sir Patrick. "It is difficult. . . ." answered pensive Putzy, "It is difficult to say." In pressing Dr. Hanfstaengl's suit last week Sergeant-at-Law Alexander Martin Sullivan hotly called TIME "a publication of offensive scurrility directed against all manner of persons!" Graduating from Harvard with the Class of 1909, enormous Putzy just after the War saw his family's Manhattan art print shop, which they valued at $600,000, auctioned off by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian for $9,000. Returning embittered to the family seat near...
...public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison...
...cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden, and it is the duty of Congress to put this through in a manner different from the present half-hearted and controversial measure...
Surely then enough trouble ahs been caused without the Crimson berating Judge Green for a sentence which seems, under the circumstances, to be just and dealt with in the best possible manner under the worst possible conditions. A. S. Blodget...