Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that George Washington Cram could ever slam a telephone receiver, that he was, of all University Hall officials, the most exacting and punctilious. Mr. Cram became, in the last years, a tradition. But he was never thought of, even in those years, as detached or venerable, in the manner of traditions. To the final day he was a living force, and it never occurred to anyone to think of University Hall, or of Harvard, without...
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN-Margaret Goldsmith-Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo's latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of Sweden named Christina. But Authoress Goldsmith's biography gives a clearer picture of what manner of woman she was than Hollywood would ever dare. Not a first-rate book, Christina of Sweden at least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like...
...mother in spite of authorship, Julia Peterkin has little truck with literary haunts. Poet Carl Sandburg once paid her his supreme compliment when he called her the only writer he knew who was not a literary person. Tall and straight, redhaired, with a calm expression, a poised and kindly manner, Authoress Peterkin writes more now than she did but lives as much as ever on her South Carolina plantation. Other books: Black April, Bright Skin. Rascoe Preferred...
...long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone's office to ask a question, pop out again, race back to his desk. Amiable, casual in manner, he sped callers on their way with "Good luck, old boy. Thanks for coming in." His job was to meet tycoons when they went to Washington with their problems and he had the knack of sending them all away happy whether or not they got what they wanted. Last week U. S. Steel...
Mathieson will issue to present stockholders rights to buy one share of the new stock at $30 (present price: $36) for each three shares they now hold. Mathieson's regular bankers. Hayden, Stone & Co.. will head a group to underwrite the issue in the usual manner. But Mathieson will not know whether its plunge was fatal until after the stock has been issued and shyster lawyers have had an opportunity to start nuisance suits...