Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion gave him an uproariously warm welcome. Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination. His easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
Here, precisely where he might most easily have become sensational, sentimental or merely tasteless, Director John Cromwell handled his material most competently. Judge Dolphin's indictment, his sentence to six years at hard labor, Ann Vickers' determination to have his child, are handled, not in the lurid manner which they might have suggested to a less conscientious director, but with almost too much dignity. At the end of the picture, when Judge Dolphin is pardoned, Ann says she is out of prison too - the prison of ambition for a selfish success. Tying the story up with this platitude...
...provisions of this agreement affecting candidates shall be made public in such manner as the Advisory Committee shall determine...
...would be unfair to judge Mr. Agar's work on any such basis as this. For although he assumes the unfortunate manner, in such cases, of one imparting state secrets, his original intent encompassed far more than a superficial reduction of Messrs. Samuel Eliot Morison and James Truslow Adams. "The People's Choice" was inspired by the logical connection between the problems which confront Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles...
...precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls for his running pants, and a pair of trousers, propelled by an invisible dwarf, trots across the stage. He occasionally pauses to rattle off, in a manner as modest and conscientiously ingratiating as a hotel clerk's, the most fantastic monologs. One has to do with his career...