Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing obscure about the theme, which is the masterly study by Dumas fils of a young girl who leaves the country for Paris, comes to love luxury and beautiful surroundings, and resorts willingly to free love as a means of achieving them. After the manner of Manon Lescaut, she sees no object in marriage even after Armand captures her heart and they spend an idyllic summer in the country at the expense of his chances to obtain a diplomatic position...
...life to building up a logical constitutional case against judicial prerogatives, throws his full support behind a starkly unfaithful interpretation of the President's power. It is the old story--the same men who berate the Supreme Court for utilising its powers politically will deal in an exactly identical manner with the Constitution, if given the opportunity...
...from Idaho had put himself emphatically on record as opposed to letting the New Deal overrule the Supreme Court except by a Constitutional amendment: "If the people desire that the Federal Government shall have control over their local affairs it is for the people to say so . . . in the manner pointed out by the Constitution...
Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37 also beat A. D. Noble in three straight as George B. Blake '39 trounced Dr. E. J. Sawyer in the same manner...
...Oxford and Cambridge would learn many things which would not be to their worldly or spiritual advantage. But at Harvard scandals are unknown; the undergraduates, if not always wise as serpents, are at all events harmless as doves. They pay their addresses to young ladies in the most orthodox manner, take them out to cotillion parties, or 'Germans', as they are called, and bring them home at midnight in the dark. But no harm over comes of it, except sometimes premature espousals...