Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everybody knows", said Alice in a very grown-up manner, "that Achilles could really beat the Tortoise in a race. Some of these stories seem so silly...
Back in Addis Ababa citizens forgot the war for a moment when troops with muffled drums and arms reversed gave full military honors to the body of the Rev. Robert Ford. Originally a witch doctor from Barbados, this personage arrived in Addis Ababa many years ago with an impressive manner and a suitcase full of goofer dust, rabbits' feet, crocodile bones and other potent nostrums, soon worked himself up to a post of great respectability and became "the Reverend." When not exorcising spirits, the Rev. Robert Ford played first saxophone in Emperor Haile Selassie's imperial band. He also gave...
...cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society. He went on to St. Joseph's Seminary (Troy, N. Y.) and Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise in his church was rapid. A priest who never had a parish...
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
...five Goyas that were sent to Brooklyn. But the fifth seemed definite news: a Portrait of a Lady, in an elaborate feathered headdress, blue & white striped dress, holding a painted fan, and with a parrot perched beside her. It was a fine example of lusty Goya's most typical manner. The canvas had not been shown in either the Goya centennial exhibition in Spain, or in the great Goya loan show in Manhattan last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). It was not reproduced in any of the standard works on Spanish painters. To whom did it belong? Where...