Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope Benedict XV, it was Monsignor Spellman who smoothed the way. When Pope Pius XI made his first international radio broadcast last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), it was Monsignor Spellman who translated the Holy Father's words into English, taking pains to speak them in the manner of U. S. announcers. When the Pope's encyclical on "Catholic Action" was to be released simultaneously in Paris and Vatican City, in case the Italian State should attempt to suppress it, it was Monsignor Spellman who forestalled any muzzling by flying with the document to Le Bourget (TIME, July...
...trustees of Princeton or any other U. S. university which lacks a president had met last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board...
Comment. Most of the nation's Press approved the manner in which the President had dealt with its B. E. F. Public blame, if any. was placed less on members of the B. E. F. than upon those Representatives & Senators who by agitating full and immediate Bonus payments had lured veterans to Washington and kept them there with false hopes and promises...
This appointment made Washington gasp. Mr. Pomerene, a solemn, bookish man with a Websterian manner, whose hobby is growing early table corn, is not a banker. He is not a famed executive. While he made a good Senator, his name, it was claimed, was not familiar enough to inspire nation-wide confidence...
...hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...