Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blonde hair, a Cupid's bow mouth, the heavy eyelids of a dreamer, wide, dark, unplucked eyebrows, and a soft round face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained in languages, music, painting, sculpture, cooking, sewing and domestic science...
More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...
Steady drive and no wasting time were the watchwords as Harlow took charge of Harvard football in a manner that left no doubt over the tactics the new regime intends to pursue at Soldiers Field. As the new coach himself told the huge mob of candidates that poured into the Briggs Cage at 4.30 o'clock, any man in Harvard can make the team, whether or not he has over played college football before, if he can only prove his ability and his willingness to work...
...before. Broad as a snowshoe, the farce finally soars off into fantasy with a big double wedding. First-week audiences clapped their delight at Dennis King's fresh talent for comedy, were likewise appreciative when he took time out to sing a song in his best light opera manner...
...Dean Hanford urges that men call at Room C to arrange for their appointments immediately upon receipt of the postcards, because only in this way will it be possible for Professor Munn's committee to plan its work in such a manner as to give each student the time and attention that his case demands...