Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business sessions the ladies concerned themselves with all manner of weighty problems, even discussing Inflation. They lunched and dined with the important artists, who got little time to eat. They nearly smothered Lawrence Tibbett trying to get his autograph. They flocked like hummingbirds around handsome, affable Arthur Walter Kramer, editor of Musical America who, dedicating his current issue to the Federation, ended his apostrophe: "It is, as it ever will be. Goethe's 'das ewig Weibliche' [the eternal feminine] that leads...
...skelter methods of exchange. Whereas formerly the student had to go running wildly about to sell his books to other students, or sell them to second hand dealers for very little, he now has an organization which will get him a fair price for his books in a systematic manner...
...supported by some man until they are married, and supported by some other man afterward. When they cut loose from the husband, why not let them go back to their families? Or get out, if their poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites...
...time did Lawyer Pecora openly point to any impropriety in the action of Banker Morgan or his partners but evidently aware of the impression the questions & answers would make on the courtroom crowd and in next days' headlines, he assumed his best prosecuting attorney manner...
...that her rival, Miss Diana Wynyard is neither better nor worse, which means that Diana is now queen of Hollywood's ball room women--there being two classes of actresses at Hollywood, ballroom ladies, and livingroom ladies. Miss Wynyard has a new coiffure and sports a new and spritely manner in her delightful acting of the part of Eleana, at once wife of a psychiatrist and mistress of an exiled Archduke. All Eleana shows is that, be it ever so sophisticated there is no place like home, and also that love for Prince Rudolph, wish-fulfillment though...