Word: manner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Money bills now initiated in the Chamber, in the U. S. manner, will in future be presented by the Government for the Chamber's approval, as in the House of Commons, thus halting irresponsible raids on the treasury...
...popularity in the Salons, was missing in the rival exhibit. There were portraits of Lenin in both shows but most were in the Independents, who also showed a picture by one Charles Goeller entitled Reconciliation, showing Diego Rivera and John Davison Rockefeller Sr. clasping hands in such a manner that each was thumbing his nose (see cut). A design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells...
...obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play faithfully produced in the manner of 1843, when Phineas Taylor Barnum first presented it, and people wept for the young wife (Dortha Duckworth) when her handsome husband (Hal Conklin) took to drink, rejoiced when good Banker Rencelaw brought him back to virtue and probity from a tavern shed...
Hollis--"Her Majesty the Widow". Old stuff dished up in an entertaining manner. Story of the vicissitudes of the wayward son of a family with traditions...
...that invaluable phrase, "a scrap of paper." Today, alas, there will shortly be an addition to the existing supply of moral indignation, for Japan is taking advantage of European difficulties to go a-fishing in troubled waters. Japan has become civilized; she now has armaments in the best western manner, she has aped methods of European diplomacy, turning them to good use in her present moves toward a chaste imperialism, all in the best traditions...