Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred the dislike of other officers and wives, finally departed. The manner of their going turned out to be an issue at the trial...
...anyone interested in trends in American art," said he, "this exhibition is extremely revealing. ... A healthier balance between content and interpretation is on the way. We find artists on the same project influencing one another in the significant manner that artists' groups have always influenced their members...
...Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...
...Department of Justice, acting under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and quoting Mr. Zukor's words, brought suit against him and almost every other bigwig in the cinema business. But, vast as this trust-busting procedure appeared, it was no New Deal crackdown in the manner of those launched against the oil, aluminum and automobile-finance businesses. Instead, in an unprecedented apology and explanation attached to its complaint, the Government took the manner of a family dentist remarking, as he starts extracting a sore tooth from a small boy's jaw, "I am sorry if this hurts...
...calls a vulgar politician, and distrusted Trotsky's ambition. As for Stalin, she says he was so little known in 1919 that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith in Socialism, believes that "the international labor movement can be built again," her disappointments make a melancholy record...