Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnny Long, protege of Hal Kemp, and his orchestra will play Kemp's own arrangements in the characteristic Kemp manner. The music of the Harringtons, featuring the distinctive swing style of Goodman arrangements and the charming voice of lovely 19-year-old Ruth Bates will offer a pleasing contrast...
...intensified by another factor which the C.I.O. failed to appreciate-national pride. However hostile Ontario is to unionization as such, the introduction of American agitators could not have failed to increase the bitterness. The General Staff of the United Automobile Workers issuing orders for the strike in the manner of a Caesar addressing a colony and Generalissimo Homer Martin flying across the line to give his lieutenants a condescending pat on the back are spectacles that self-respecting Canadians do not tolerate...
...costuming and setting, "The Great Waltz" made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
...Virginia Woolf writes well will hardly be news to anyone who reads contemporary literature. But it is sometimes hard to tell whether she is writing prose or poetry. Such a book as The Waves (TIME, Oct. 19, 1931), for instance, is not only in the mood but in the manner of poetry, flagrantly trespassing on poetry's ground. The Years has fewer of these ambiguously-styled passages than To the Lighthouse or The Waves, but they appear now & then. Sometimes they are onomatopoetic: "And the walloping Oxford bells, turning over and over like slow porpoises...
...utterly unconvincing. Perhaps the worst scene we can recall, not only in this picture, but in all we have seen this year, is that in which Miss Moore plays fairy godmother to a particularly unpleasant crowd of yelling children by singing an inane song in her strained, professionally cheery manner. The rest of the cast, Aline MacMahon, Cary Grant, and Luis Alberni suffer from the lack of plot, and juvenile dialogue...