Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Man. Elmer Thomas won the vantage point where he became the legal sponsor of these drastic acts by his own type of doggedness. His well-barbered white hair, businesslike dress, calm manner, conversational public speeches bear no resemblance to the traditional windblown locks, flapping coat tails, and fiery eloquence of the silver-tongued demagog. It is true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged...
What its delegates thought of the treaties and agreements they have made, the Seventh Pan-American Conference showed last week by breaking up at Montevideo in a manner remindful of harridans struggling over cut-rate stockings in a bargain basement...
...that comes from his pen has the same brittle competence. One sees the commas, the exclamations, the paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them. His attitude, however, to these people at a Second Empire hotel is broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses...
...honor of meeting and talking to Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana, I was not taken into confidence when the Liberal Club sent a telegram to Senator Walsh asking for Long's expulsion. I would like to protest this move, not only because it was done in a dictatorial manner by two members of the Club, but also because it does not represent the views that some of us members hold on the subject...
...confronting Congress Mr. Roosevelt finds himself in an unsually strong position. He has dealt with the inflation problem in such a manner as to befuddle both its exponents and its proponents, despite the fact that vigorous abuse has been leveled at him by both factions. The idea of devaluating the dollar was a very clever one indeed, for no one--least of all the economists--was quite sure just what it meant. While it is most doubtful if it has accomplished anything tangible, its general effect has been to quiet both parties and thus avoid an open conflict between them...