Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance, and with his suave, dashing acting captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunately for the picture, however, the love-interest as supplied by Elissa Landi is subordinated...
...first picture in what has become the recognized Wood manner was a portrait of his mother holding a potted sansevieria. At her throat is the identical cameo which he put on his sister and used with such effect a year later in American Gothic. Iowans liked his work. He won the art contest for a sweepstakes prize at the Iowa State Fair, continued to win it year after year...
...high adventure." And reminding the country of Britain's great War-loan refunding program, which included a six-month ban on new private capital issues and a purple appeal to public patriotism, he declared: "Here we have handled this same transaction so easily, and in such a commonplace manner, that many people have undoubtedly been unaware of its nature or significance...
...Newark, N. J., for having been hit by an automobile when the traffic lights changed as she was crossing a street, Mrs. Michael May sued the City of Newark for . $5,000 for operating traffic lights "in a reckless, haphazard and improper manner...
...have noticed in the public lavatories of the Houses that a certain commodity, a commodity that is indispensable to any bathroom, has been marked along the edges of the rolls with colored crayons. Obviously the only possible reason for ornamenting this necessity in this manner is to prevent the theft of the said commodity by the House residents. I have never filched anything from the Houses' public lavatories, for I am a thoughtful boy who keeps a list of petty purchases to be made on the next trip to the Square; but I cannot help feeling viciously insulted when...