Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage show this week is decidedly the brighter half of the offerings. Kitty Carlisle who has stepped gracefully from New Orleans to front line chorus to Hollywood and the arms of Bing Crosby sings in manner attractive. Phil Cook hasn't changed in all these years. There is also a bicycle stunt of considerable skill...
...James merely because he happened to be around when she chose to do a bit of drowning in Naples. Things are temporarily complicated by the arrival of Clara Wilson, Dinsmore's erstwhile fiancee, but her marital designs are quickly shifted to Sir James and all concludes in highly satisfactory manner...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...contrary, the committee has discarded all such proposals and has engaged in the task of arranging a permanent commuter organization to aid it in convincing the University in a reasonable manner of the real needs of the group and of the benefits which would accrue to the college as a whole by taking the proposed steps. Such an organization would give coherence and unity to the movement as well as providing a more accurate index of its scope and importance...
...glow on, my Harvard brethren, and go ye in bands of six or more to the Copley Theatre. There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that...