Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rules of the Ames Competition expressly provide that decisions shall NOT be made upon the merits of the case (the law) but upon the manner in which counsel have presented their respective side of the argument. The judges are to consider only the structure of the briefs, the treatment of authorities, the skill shown in answering questions asked by the court, and the mastery of the technique of oral advocacy displayed by rival counsel, in arriving at their conclusion. Mr. Reed would not be embarrassed at having to make a decision of this nature and in no way would...
...Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse which he ought to have known better how to control, he so far forgot himself. . . . He realizes that he had no right whatever to take this arbitrary action. ... If this protest was needed, there is no possible excuse for the manner in which it was made, particularly by one who might be expected to set an example of orderly and seemly behavior, and the Bishop can only say that he blames himself as severely as any other person can blame...
...school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy, it was not exactly German. That, I feel sure, comes from the fact that my musical education was not confined to one locality...
...prints, drawings, watercolours, and oils exhibited at the Germanic Museum, one can see clearly the richness of the imagination of this artist and his enormous creative facility. The brilliant pigment is broadly handled and fluid in the manner of the impressionists but with a depth of vision never attained by them...
Christopher Columbus 445 years ago touched the shores of what is now the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic will never forget it. Columbus is still the Republic's leading character and its people have long wished to honor America's discoverer in a manner truly grand. For 75 years they have talked of a ''world's greatest" monument (in the form of a memorial lighthouse), finally got the backing of the Pan American Conference of 1923, a design, support of the League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World...