Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
...proposed a resolution of adjournment "welcoming heartily the initiative taken by the President of the United States" and couched chiefly in the future tense. Excerpts: "Chemical, bacteriological and incendiary warfare shall be prohibited. . . . Air attacks against civilian population shall be absolutely prohibited . . ." at some future time and in some manner totally unspecified. In campaigning for re-election President Hoover and Republican orators ought to be able to make such a resolution sound much as though something had been accomplished on the President's initiative...
...Baldwin, in figure, face and manner the image of John Bull, saved the inter view by declaring in handsome English fashion: "The whole Conference is above parties and personalities. We are in the true cricket spirit. We don't care tup pence who makes the runs, so long as the Empire as a whole wins a victory...
...eager to recreate. The entire Socialist Cabinet of Premier Otto Braun of Prussia was declared deposed. Socialist Minister of the Interior Karl Severing showed fight, refused to leave the Wilhelmstrasse except by force. A squad of steel-helmeted soldiers arrived, their officers carrying clanking sabres in the old manner. Karl Severing reconsidered...
Like many persons who possess abundant nervous energy, he comports himself, away from tennis courts, in a manner almost painfully lethargic. Vines ambles when he walks. His frame, more knobby at the knees and elbows than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...