Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CUSTOMS of modern LEGAL marriage, namely, 1 ) to legalize birth control, so as to make the "companionate'' relationship in lawful marriage just as legal and moral as the "procreative" relationship, especially since the great majority of all married couples practice the "companionate" relationship in a bootleg manner even though it is forbidden by the rules and laws of church and state. 2) To legalize certain sex education, so necessary for successful marriage, but which is now also quite generally forbidden by law. 3) To abolish the present divorce courts with all of their illegality, hypocrisy and bootlegging that...
...Buffalo G. O. P. machine is behind grey-haired, dignified Judge Kenefick who up to last week had not formally avowed his candidacy. Conservative in mind and manner, this candidate, like Colonel Donovan, was once "just a poor Irish lad." Western New York has not forgotten that appealing phase of his career and now sees in Judge Kenefick an able, prosperous lawyer who has given generously of his time and money for Buffalo's advancement...
...White Star Liner Britannic put in at Boston last week. Down the gangplank walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits...
...Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even...
Reply: It has been proven repeatedly in the present economic crisis that our big financiers are not infallible. . . . By cancellation of international public debts, modern "Shylocks" can collect private foreign loans in a more expedient and profitable manner...