Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given signal from Head Coach Tom Bolles the whole pageant became galvanized into action and swept swiftly down the river. Following at a discreet distance came the launches containing the coaches and one special boat containing the men from Hollywood. This boat was fitted with all manner of movie contraptions even sound instruments...
...This man, once so agile and fox-faced, smartly uniformed and lordly sinister in manner, sat as if in a daze. In appearance he is the most crushed of all the defendants. He has lain for at least ten months in the same prison cells to which he has consigned so many others. He sits lackadaisically in a rear seat of the courtroom. He is dressed in a dark suit. He is only 47, but his hair has whitened in the past year, and his face is lined with despair...
...March American Lutheran: "When the pastor sits in the Sanctuary during the course of the service he ought to behave in a seemly manner. Lounging, leg-crossing, nose-picking, yawning should be postponed to the hours of relaxation in the parsonage. Most of our pastors are robed, and while they are thus solemnly attired personal mannerisms should be completely under control. Their sanctuary habits should be impeccable...
...other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that he had outgrown his controversial gift, suggested it was time for him to quit, that he might now write "a superb work of the imagination on the scale of Anthony Adverse but incomparably better written and more soundly American...
...statement announces that the Committee is "strenuously opposed to the submission of any question in the manner used in the recent instance of the Senior Class constitution...