Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcontents who remarked last winter in their peculiarly crabbed manner that no matter what his sins Franklin D. Roosevelt will go right through the Pearly Gates in the Sourmahal must be feeling particularly acute qualms during the present vacation of the President...
...League of Nations! We fight and die while the League talks. ... If only we could fight men in the manner of men! But we are facing an invader who uses the most fiendish methods known to warfare all because he is angered that we protect our homes and land. Our lands are being laid barren by gas; our mules, sheep, and cattle are dying in the fields...
...honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with the proper salute." If British admirals in non-British ports were thus humiliating Italian sea captains last week in the manner of traffic policemen, then Europe was indeed at the mercy of an incident...
...means as bad as it might have been. The monotonous howlings of 10-year-old Mickey Rooney as Puck, the fatuous grinnings of Dick Powell and Ross Alexander, as the lovers bemused by his potions; the spectacle of Joe E. Brown cracking lichee nuts in a manner derived from Once in a Lifetime, as he impersonates Flute, the bellows-mender; and the over-energetic jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version...
...played in a small side-street theatre. A few devotees went night after night but money was lost. Last season the Monte Carlo Ballet visited go cities, earned nearly a million dollars, more than the Ziegjeld Follies. Last week it opened again in Manhattan, this time in the grand manner, as a thriving, accepted organization. Scene was the Metropolitan Opera House where the Diaghilev company gave its historic performances 19 years...