Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa last week Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett behaved in a manner which correspondents called "rough and almost dictatorial" with respect to the coming Conference. Members of the Cabinet complained privately that Mr. Bennett was excluding them from his confidence. Preparations seemed to be under way to exclude the Press as much as possible from Conference doings...
Kyne began life as a sort of underclerk with the San Francisco headquarters of Dolbeer & Carson. John Dolbeer's only son died in his 'teens and Dolbeer took a lasting fancy to Kyne. Dolbeer encouraged him in every manner. When success came to Kyne, Dolbeer rejoiced: when Dolbeer died, a millionaire, Kyne was handsomely remembered in the will. Dolbeer was a markedly strong figure in the business life of his day, and when Kyne writes of redwood, you may depend on it that he has Dolbeer in mind...
...must have some freedom left. Let us stand by and uphold and support the 'noble experiment,'-the 18th amendment-for through the adoption of that law. we have worked out among ourselves a substitute for bonded liquor that far excels in every degree and in every manner, both in taste and effect, that which was dispensed prior to the enactment of that amendment. "I therefore call upon you and the hard-liquor drinkers of these United States to join me in an organization to be known as the 'Liquor Drinkers of America,' that we get together...
...manner of Governor Roosevelt quoting great Democrats of the dead past, Prime Minister MacDonald opened the Conference with a speech quoting the Basle Committee's urgent advice last year that "adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world . . . should take place without delay if new disasters are to be avoided" (TIME, Jan. 4). A great orator, Scot MacDonald gave new freshness to this stale, sound advice by rolling out such exhortations...
...assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire, and you may take it upon the authority of M. Anatole France that its social habits are in many instances superior to those of its well known relative, homo sapiens...