Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant variation from the general mystery story is the manner in which the various police officers working upon the case help each other and together see the thing through, so that in this story, instead of the one sterotyped super sleuth very nobly carrying on, we have the small group solve their problem by their cooperative efforts...
...members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner in which English arms are used by England's enemies on English soldiers, one feels that the solution to the whole thing is to give every soldier a block of the stock in the major arms company of his country, thus bringing him home rich and satisfying everyone concerned...
They asked one lad for a poem, and he replied enthusiastically that he was making a long satiric poem for them, after the manner of Dryden. The editors waited a long time for further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem...
Goebbels, Goering, and, to a lesser extent, Hitler himself, have behaved since last March in such a manner as to convict themselves either of the desire to go to war or of a stupendous inability to chart their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand...
...finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell-scorched preacher and a bumbling sheriff...