Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marcel Achard, is concerned with murder in a film studio. The victim is the jeune premiere, Liane, poisoned in a hasty drink before her theme song shot. Suspicion moves around the very mixed company, centering upon different members; there are false clues and bogus confessions in the best manner; and the murderer is finally revealed when the death film is reproduced...
...pattern of their lives is not, however, separated from the body of the book, nor is it the whole book. In the person of Vergil Harris. I find examplified a manner of handling character that has now come to be a fashion. Vergil has the habit of confusing time, of imagining himself back in his boyhood, of suffering again the persecutions of boyhood playmates. This may be a thoroughly accurate way of portraying weak characters. It is, at any rate, a favorite one with modern novelists: Joyce has used it. Whole books have been written by his imitators (Mr. Aiken...
Coincidently, but in a less spectacular manner, the scenery for this year's play, "La Machine Infernale," by Jean Cooteau, will also be transported to town, and the Club will enter upon the last lap of its production. The dress rehearsal, complete with chariot, will be held tonight at 6.30 o'clock, and the play will open tomorrow...
...silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings to the coat, nor slashed sleeves. Shoes and strings...
Each man gives five major speeches on different subjects of about ten minutes each and several shorter ones. The instructor criticizes each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner," and the content and organization of his speeches. For the longer speeches the student has to prepare a detailed outline which cables him to organize his thoughts and lends continuity to his expression. Possibly some of the material and written examinations are a little superfinous but your speaking is greatly aided...