Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very real picture of the sea on a glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...
...early account of this affair which I read in the Philadelphia papers called attention to disparity of size & weight of the assaultee & assaulted. Had this photographer been a burly six-footer would he have been handled in this summary manner? Incidentally Young Roosevelt has received more publicity than having himself photographed. I voted for his father...
...teacher I suppose I should protest the satiric manner in which you reported the crisis in Education (TIME. April 16), but I am rather inclined to agree with your treatment although, perhaps, for different reasons...
Everyone who knows, with some intimacy, the history either of Harvard or of any other New England college where such meetings of the faculty have been maintained, knows that they have been in the past, greatly useful. They have permitted the teachers to express themselves in a direct manner before all their fellows, whether of high or low degree, and they have given the president an opportunity to gain broad understanding of the thought of his whole faculty. Dr. Conant has truly remarked, however, that as the teaching group grew very large, the worth of such assemblies diminished. "Where...
...first article, of the gloomy point of view, is written by Hartley Grattan, who appears to be an able student of modern war and world affairs. The second, "How America Can Keep Out of the Next War," is written by Lothrop Stoddard, in a manner to prove that Mr. Stoddard was probably living on the northern shore of Baffin Land, or perhaps inside the Mammoth Caverns during the last war. Mr. Stoddard desires with a great earnestness to keep out of the next war, unless "a vital natural interest" (i.e. not that of keeping out of war) is involved...