Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allurements. And then there was the foyer, and with it, all relative to the sixty-five cents, was that appealing influence of Oxford on a South End accent gently intoning that discouraged something about a "Bettah seelekshun." Those fifteen pairs of trodden toes reacted in the usual incoherent manner. The patron saint of sleeping dogs keeps watch over the soles of metropolitan theatre-goers...
While the Senate was arguing, Postmaster General Brown drew the wrath of the House Post Office Committee and some operators by juggling airmail routes in precisely the manner which the law provides but which his critics call ''arbitrary." He gave Transcontinental & Western Air a mail route from Los Angeles to San Francisco as an "extension" of its New York-Los Angeles run. The extension parallels United Air Lines. Also to T. & W. A. he gave a route from Columbus to Chicago; to American Airways an extension from Buffalo to Detroit (joining its Detroit-Chicago). Both the latter extensions...
...week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that of an Italianate Paul Manship...
Biocracy likens the human body to the economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
Peabody Playhouse--"The Sacred Flame." Somerset Maugham's play, done in a truly professional manner by The Stagers. This week only. $1.25 top price...