Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently shocked when one of their fellow leaves his earthly vessel. We think they sit around waiting for some one to go in a particularly violent, or novel manner and then start to work...
...Kings whether active or abdicated, do not marry "mistresses," and it is high time that the cheap tittle-tattle of the scurrilous should end. . . . There is a strong sentiment in England as there is here that both lady & lover have been treated in a most unchivalrous and dastardly manner both by Cads Clerical and Cads Temporal, and it is high time that fair play and a more kindly and Christian attitude be evidenced in the matter...
...preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused the class struggle with the struggle between good and evil." Further Eisenstein faults were showing a collective campaigner with "an enormous beard and the manner of a Biblical Saint," showing the hero with a halo around his head...
...Midnight on the Desert" stands out as a document of our age. It might well prove a reference book to future theorists who attempt to understand the inner workings of the Twentieth Century mind. Priestley's smoothly flowing style and his calm and unhurried manner make this book more of a friendly chat that a formal discourse on life and contemporary topics. As we turn the last pages, we feel that we have come to know J. B. Priestley better than Dr. Johnson, perhaps better even, than our own friends. This book is more than an "Excursion into Autobiography...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented John Sebastian Bach's magnificent St. Matthew Passion for the first time in these parts in several years. The results so pleased Dr. Koussevitzy that he determined to repeat the work this year in the ideal manner--that is on Good Friday. Thus, today is the date of the performance of the greatest of all Passion music, which is to be given at Symphony Hall in two parts: 4:30 p. m. and after an intermission...