Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
Since April, Premier Edouard Daladier has ruled France in a manner more pleasing to the French Right than that of the preceding Popular Front cabinets. A Radical Socialist, for two uninterrupted years Minister of National Defense, M. Daladier's strong inclinations to please the Right have often conflicted with the fact that only by Socialist support has he remained in power. Although quickly-changing French cabinets during the last year have been less & less lenient with striking workers, last week M. Daladier got positively tough...
...Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of state, is as sly and villainous as in past pictures. Sigrid Gurie, Sam Goldwyn's famed Norwegian discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper, as Marco Polo, collects coal, fireworks, and "spaghet" to introduce to Venice and he also teaches the lovely princess to kiss. She loves...
...where he lasted until Administrator Chester Davis' famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next given the $6,500 job of setting up WPA in his home State. Since 1935 he has administered $95,000,000 worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative...
...unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...