Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brandishing a mop in an axe-like manner, a five-eater was swabbing the third story windows. An assistant directed the hose on the panes at the same time; so dirt didn't have much chance of staying on the outside...
Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...
...material that is obtained from these questionnaires will be compiled into comments on each course open to Freshmen, in much the same manner as last year's Guide. These comments, together with general considerations to be kept in mind when choosing courses and fields, and general suggestions, will comprise the first part of the Guide...
...himself, for Stanford, set the N.A.A. low hurdle record of 20 seconds. He ran the hurdles for the U.S. in the 1916 Norway Olympics, and in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. But Feg's business now is seeing Hollywood stars in the Ripley "Believe-It-Or-Not" manner. And in Hollywood he finds things even Ripley misses...
...LeGallienne repertory company and "Alice in Wonderland" scores again as the daughter of a fanatical mountaineer. Trained as a nurse, she attempts to aid her ignorant and hostile neighbors by her medical skill, but Pa, played by Robert Barrat, is the horse-whipping type, and, resenting the manner in which his daughter "keeps sticking her nose into other people's business", administers several lashings so convincingly that the audience greets his death with applause...