Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Line Philadelphia society girl with a high and historic sense of her own importance. After a first marriage that crashed because she behaved like a Moon-Goddess instead of a wife, she is about to make a second marriage (with the wrong man) in the same holier-than-thou manner. On the eve of the wedding, various well-wishers file by to tell her what an impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine Spy and of "brief, bluff, belligerent" Dime) to queer the marriage...
...What manner of soul has Al Capone, only he and his Lord know. In the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro Bay, California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed...
...since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
...Agriculture Henry A. Wallace for a measly commodity fraud Secretary Wallace charged 77-year-old Willie Durant, his wife and various associates including the brokerage houses of Alexander Eisemann & Co. and H. W. Armstrong & Co. with "having cheated " and defrauded persons for whom futures contracts were made... by the manner in which they promoted and operated a scheme sometimes called the Buchhalter plan of trading...
Legendre, as the picture star, is easily outstanding; he has a pleasant stage manner and he handles his lines and his songs with a confidence which shows considerable talent; close on his heels comes D. Gordon Halstead, '40, who plays the part of the sweet young thing to perfection. Philip C. Starr, '40, portrays the inevitable "other woman," sings all his songs as though he were letting out for dear old Maine, and rolls around the stage with a lascivious list to starboard; the combination is priceless...