Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to accept his scholarship on October 3rd, Ernest F. Hanfstaengl '09 made public Saturday his letter of reply. He demanded that Mr. Conant back up his accusations with specific instances and expressed his distress that the actions of the Hitler government could be construed in such a manner...
This is a fair example of the book's method. The Jews, the nationalization of banks, and the standing of the Storm Troopers are taken up in a like manner. All of this evidence is used to create a single impression: that the Nazis are consistent only in that they never tell the truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book...
...looks as if the American Legion, the D.A.R. and the American Liberty League are were to see a good many innovations closely resembling one or another of those things they call un-American. It does not appear that the United States of 1934 can be run in the same manner as the United States of 1789, in spite of the nostalgia of those three associations for those good old days. Of course the people of their ilk might step in and take control; but that would be fascism or something like it and not very close to the days...
...once his decision was taken he indulged no regrets. The war over, he could say: "I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if it all were to be done over again, I should act in precisely the same manner." Biographer Freeman allows Lee high marks as a strategist and commander, but thinks he had weaknesses as both. Lee was sometimes too much of a gentleman, says Freeman: by not standing on his authority, letting subordinates argue and outface him, he sometimes lost military opportunities. He was usually content to outline...
...happened was a book of 26 "stories" by one William Saroyan, 26-year-old U. S.-Armenian. But readers of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies that death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable"; opened their eyes wider & wider at this doom-implying youngster as they read further. To readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies...