Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been explored by these three masons of finance. Their recommendations, which Chancellor Chamberlain promptly adopted last week by issuing a Treasury decree effective April 26 were broadly two: 1) The emergency "antidumping" tariff' of 50% on luxury and semi-luxury manufactures, thrown up last autumn in the manner of hasty pioneers who hear war whoops not far off, is now completely torn down. 2) The low but massive 10% General Tariff on manufactures built last February becomes a 20% wall topped by special duties on luxury articles which form castellations, buttresses and tariff towers as high...
...from "the Bishops" and the Press in England. He explained that "this is a peripatetic group, just as the disciples of Jesus. It goes wherever God guides it." He smiled amiably, as did his entourage, 17 of whom had prepared typewritten statements for the reporters, describing themselves and the manner of their conversions to The Groups. Typical was the account of Jonkheer Eric van Lennep, Knight of St. John of Holland, who said of himself: "He used to live behind masks; a mask for the office; a mask for his friends, a mask at home and another for his social...
Somewhat irked by Mr. Whitney's composed manner and cool utterances, the committee set off on a new angle of inquiry. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, President Hoover's good friend who started the inquiry, had less to say last week, left the conduct of the investigation to Chairman Peter Norbeck (who was in the West when it was voted) and to the committee's new counsel, William A. Gray of Philadelphia. First move of the committee was to publish the names of 350 traders who were short 2,500 or more shares as of April...
...beginning there were moving lectures of suave burglars with gloves and tophats, who committed most astounding crimes in the approved Raffles' manner. Then the God of the cinema ushered in the hotel theme with the monumental productions, "Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...
...Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored by a busy world in the quiet grave at Concord...