Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real thing," and the children were "well-behaved youngsters." General MacArthur was not obliged to travel on that abominable boat. He could have taken leave and traveled home in comfort on a liner, but he is a first-class soldier and he preferred to travel in the same manner the less fortunate officers of the Army as to rank and money are obliged to travel under orders. . . . MAY WALKER BURLESON Fort Sam Houston, Tex. ClNCUS...
...vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveller in time." Such a group of sagas is contained...
Tall, lean, with clipped mustache, close-set eyes, Thomas Mann is dry of face and manner; his movements are almost feminine. His few intimate friends he can count on the fingers of one hand. He likes comfort, order, a settled family life. He was so fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly...
...cannot offer education from such a source. The CRIMSON feels that since the second factor is so open to debate, the first should be stressed the most. Germany and the United States are on a friendly basis and Harvard should not stir up feeling by acting in a contrary manner. Therefore, it would be better to accept the offer as genuine and give the student the benefit of a year in Germany...
...where they were peaceably gathered, into the streets, where the onsuing congestion provided the mounted police with an excuse for charging their horses into the crowd, riding down innocent and helpless men, women, and children. People sitting in their cars were cursed and slugged in the same manner as those who were driven along on foot. Some hundred and fifty patrolmon pushed, kicked, cuffed, clubbed, and arrested all who could not got out of their way quickly enough, as well as those whose arrests had been planned because of their previous political activities. In the police station heating were administered...