Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion in question did not call for a wisecrack of this nature. I did not make it and I do not doubt that many reading the remark attributed to me, will feel that I acted in a most unbecoming and undignified manner...
...name Minsky has become associated in the public mind with indecent burlesque shows. It appears that the manner in which they would conduct the new enterprise, with its appeal to the lowest instincts of its patrons, would not in any way be changed from the old manner of producing burlesque shows." Thus New York License Commissioner Paul Moss, killer of burlesque (TIME, May 10), refused Brothers Morton and Herbert K. Minsky a license to present a "high class variety revue.'' Shouted Brother Morton: "We'll match our private lives with the Commissioner...
...picture appears to belong to the period of Goya's best portraits, as they are classified by Beruete from 1801 to 1808. The age of the sitter, the costume and the manner of wearing the hair, the similarity in style to others of that time, all point toward those years. In its summary technique and its candor of statement, its closest parallel is a fine sketch done in 1805 of Mocarte...
...each year members will be elected in the following manner: Captains and managers have the right to vote for major sport representatives and lettermen and managers-elect are eligible. From the six major representatives elected at that meeting one shall be designated as the major sports representative on the Committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports...
...editorial page is an excellent transcript of the original, but what has become of Pegasus? Does the Phoenix rise triumphant after all? In a Sullivanesk manner the Editor takes the stand and reveals the cliches of his trade. Several letters, ranging from the violent to the academic, follow in their usual place. More reviews bring us to "The Bowling Alley," where the King of the Kinsprits gets what's been coming to him these many years. The person who ghosted this feature deserves to be congratulated on having imitated Morley's manner so well, even to the footloose anecdotes...