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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME really feels, as it claims to feel, a responsibility towards its readers to review books of poetry, may I suggest that its manner of discharging that responsibility is unfortunate? Even omnibus criticism owes the reader a greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in your excellent reviews of the poetry of Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...chief weakness lies in the poor quality of the acting performances, excepting that of the little Indian boy Sabu. Unlike the mediocre portrayals turned in by the rest of the cast, his rendering of the role of Prince Azim is an artistic triumph. With his frank smile and unassuming manner, the boy has an appealing personality and a complete naturalness that stamp him as a really fine child actor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Glackens, as for these other young artists, the fin de siècle was buoyant. In Paris Glackens enjoyed himself painting public gardens, cafés, dance halls in the general manner of Degas and Manet. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1895. Among 97 canvases hung at the Whitney show were several glamor paintings of this period done after Glackens returned to Manhattan: Mouquin's Restaurant, Hammerstein's Roof Garden, sledding in Central Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting & Pleasure | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...East, but Hodder has added to that a well-drilled team that performs excellently as a unit also. The problem of the defense, which was most badly weakened by graduation of mainstays from last year's six, seems to have been eliminated in a more than satisfactory manner through the work of Charlie Houghton, Win Jameson and Bill Coleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victories of Hodder's Sextet Indicate Good Season Ahead | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Having regard to the manner in which the busts of eminent Americans find their way into University Heights' Hall of Fame a group of twelve men meeting in this town submit the following eminent contemporaries for consideration after 1965. You will note that under the present three-fifths rule only the first four were elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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