Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Reilly has often and bitterly protested about the manner of Hauptmann's incarceration, and last week accused the Federal Government of transferring two Department of Justice investigators to the West because they were implicated in trying to beat a confession out of his client. The Department of Justice promptly replied that the agents, if needed, would be back at Flemington in time for the trial...
...Benito Mussolini and Ethiopia's kinky-haired Emperor Power of Trinity I, as to whose soldiers attacked first at Ualual in eastern Africa (TIME, Dec. 24). Ethiopia sent to the League disconcerting testimony from a British pasturage commissioner on the spot that the Italians had behaved in a manner highly "provocative." Fearing another clash on Ethiopia's border, the Abyssinians last week zealously polished their Japanese arms. Great hero was white-robed Chief Ghogoli who had rallied his dusky horsemen at Ualual so smartly that they were able to fight it out for three days and kill some...
...shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance was all they would permit. If Hephzibah can be argued out of a concert career her parents will be happier. Says Father Moshe Menuhin: "Catching airplanes, boats and trains, and a continual...
...company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph going on to cinema fame & fortune, American Mutoscope Co. to the manufacture of strength testographs, all manner of penny arcade devices...
...badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary Poppins was, to say the least, a peculiar nursemaid. She came to the Banks family on a strong east wind, and firmly refused to give any references. Though her manner was formidable, the Banks children liked her at once, hoped she would stay. She was an efficient nurse, "never wasted time in being nice," was a great one for saying No or Humph. But she was in cahoots with all kinds of magical powers, astounded and captivated her charges...