Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collective security is collaboration and cooperation between democratic countries to discern a war aggressor from its victim and to help the victim in every possible manner," defined Representative Bernard...
...Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true Gallic gallantry...
...House and punctuated by the ringing of a telephone bell in the police booth directly behind the President's desk.* Because it was concerned almost entirely with fiscal matters, because these were expressed largely by quotations of his earlier message and because the President's voice and manner were flatter, more perfunctory than usual, it was one of the dullest as well as the longest (4,860 words) on record. Nonetheless, it was not devoid of appealing imagery, an adroitly conciliatory reference to Business and a thoughtful little essay on the ideology of centralized government. Excerpts...
...other spot landing, the pilot tries to land at the bull's-eye of a large circle. He may approach in any manner he pleases but must throttle his engine back when he reaches the height of 500 feet. In both landings, the motor must idle after the pilot has reached the designated altitude in order that the conditions simulate a dead-stick landing...
...Hicks diatribe, entitled "A Letter to Robert Hillyer," referred specifically to Hillyer's recent book of poetry, addressed in the same manner to Robert Frost. In a full page of caustic verse Hicks belittled the poet on both personal and professional grounds. Some extracts from "A Letter to Robert Hillyer' are below...