Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of an implicit and unresolved question: Who is responsible for aged parents, and what is to be done about them? The unsentimental coldness with which Author Lawrence states her typical case-history is well calculated to shock readers into horrified protest, but the exaggerated indifference of her manner saves her story from drabness, gives it a painful point...
Mary Moore was born in West Side Manhattan, but in looks and manner she is as Irish as her ancestors. Her father, an employe of American Radiator Co., favored piano lessons but singing seemed foolish. An indulgent uncle took Mary to the opera one afternoon. After that there was no holding her back. She met the late Billy Guard, Mr. Gatti's kindly pressagent, who recommended a teacher. She had an audition early last winter. Mr. Gatti was noncommittal but he invited her to attend performances free. Her contract brought reports of an exceptionally clear voice, a range that...
...Congress added this amendment: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give any authority to cancel or reduce in any manner any of the indebtedness of any foreign country to the U. S." That one sentence knocked out of the President's hand what was general!}7 expected to be his most useful crowbar in prying trade privileges for U. S. industries out of foreign countries with big War Debts owing...
...promised Princeton a New Deal. "I trust the alumni will pardon me," he wrote last autumn, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform of educational policy or radical reform. Princeton accepts as valid some of the current charges against American education and in a quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only major changes thus far have been an extension of the four-course plan by which high-ranking seniors will be freed from all course requirements in their last term, and an up-to-date pension and group insurance plan...
...druggist was soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best; each waved his free hand gently to and fro during tender and plaintive passages. They sang the concluding letters of the alphabet in a manner which was downright voluptuous and with tears streaming down their cheeks...