Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreamed the other night that the world had become dissatisfied with the inaccurate manner in which facts are reported and it employed me to relate things of importance exactly as they happened...
...Janson. He was speaking last week in the small ballroom of Washington's famed Willard Hotel, competing in the finals of a national oratorical contest for which Mr. Hamilton's committee had put up $15,000 in regional and main prizes. Young Orator Janson's platform manner was prodigiously polished for a junior high school freshman. His words had an authentic Republican ring...
...Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit U. S. Gypsum's presidency, which he had held for 32 years. Said he once to an inquisitive Ward stockholder: "I banana-peeled into this place...
This contagious dogma was uncorked 70 years ago by an unlettered New England clockmaker, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me. He had discovered that he could mesmerize people, and in collaboration with a clairvoyant youth named Lucius Burkmar he cured all manner of ills. To him in 1862 went a formidable, twice-married invalid, Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson, who after her third marriage was to become known as Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church...
...affected much by the kind of day. Whether the sun is out or not in Cambridge makes little difference in the quantity of nine-o'clock or hour exams. When mud puddles swoosh in the streets and everybody is nasty and wet, Vag sometimes fails to preserve his charming manner; but that's no reason to slap five courses onto the University's enormous curriculum...