Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green and John Lewis had met face to face since an unpublicized meeting in a Washington hotel seven months ago. They mumbled greetings to each other but did not shake hands. Later when a reporter asked Mr. Green if it had been "Bill" and "John" again, Mr. Green, whose manner with the Press is not one of his strong points, flushed, gulped and trailed off with a weak "Well...
...such a manner, after the death of a Panchen Lama in 1883, was his successor chosen, one Ch'osgyi-nyima. son of a woodcutter in a remote Tibetan village. In the great monastery of Tashilhunpo for 13 years Lamas trained him in the intricacies of Lamaist ritual. At 18 this "Buddha of Boundless Light" was installed on his yellow satin throne, presumably for the rest of his days to guide the souls of Tibetans, while the Dalai Lama, an older and wilier man, conducted its temporal affairs. The ''Buddha of Mercy" proved to be more sinister than...
Suzanne Eisendieck's genteel penury was brought to the attention of Dietz Edzard, a young artist with an ingratiating manner and amiable eyes. Artists Edzard and Eisendieck soon became the best of friends, began to paint so much alike that laymen now have some difficulty in telling their work apart. He it was who interested Mme Zak in his friend's paintings, saw her proudly through a typical Leicester Galleries opening last June, attended by everybody from hatchet-faced Lady Oxford to the Baroness d'Erlanger and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. All the Eisendieck pictures were sold...
...joining the squad of a very minor sport, a portly un-athletic Junior filled out his eligibility card in a jocose manner. His statements must have permanently raised eyebrows on Quincy Street, for yesterday he received the following letter: Harvard Athletic Association Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Operating as private membership associations, exchanges have always administered their affairs in much the same manner as private clubs. For a business so vested with public interest, this traditional method has become archaic...