Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before press conference the President arranged to have a written question submitted asking whether he agreed with U. S. Steel's Benjamin Franklin Fairless that steel prices could not be cut without cutting wages. The answer, written out, he read to reporters in the best Roosevelt manner, tossing his head from side to side, stopping once to point out how he used monosyllables so anyone could understand. Excerpts...
...Allison, who speaks Japanese, diplomatically confined himself to adding that the sentry "livid with rage . . . shouted at us in a most offensive manner," grabbed Mr. Riggs, tore the collar and some buttons from his shirt...
...practice the pilot approaches the airport in the normal manner along the regular route beam. Twenty miles out his radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down...
...Picayune with full credit lines. I sent the Gorem article from the Sun with credit. It was not actual news and was placed on the 'bank' [with other unused type] in the Times-Picayune. Several days later the column written by Jimmy was sent in. In some manner the makeup man on the Times-Picayune picked up a part of the Gorem article and added to the Powers column with no separating . . . dash or credit line...
...Lash won the tow-mile, as expected, but not in the manner expected. Old-times Joe McClusky held the lead most of the way, Lash hanging back--once in fourth place. As Joe pimped around the last curve it looked as though the crowd's favorite was going to win, but Lash whipped out and around to break the tape first, ahead of McClusky. This was the most exciting race of the evening, though Lash's time was comparatively slow, 9:4.6, over six seconds behind Lash's record...