Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drought-stricken counties of Texas. . . .' "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be ex tended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people...
...Margaret Rose. Reason for this question: when there is no male heir to a British peerage it descends equally upon female heirs who are sisters, and the House was much disquieted last week by the thought that England might some day have two Queens at once, after the manner of the two simultaneous Kings of Barataria in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers. So tremendous is the prestige of an opinion by Sir John Simon that all thought of enacting one-Queen legislation ended when the Home Secretary opined that Princess Elizabeth, in the event of her father...
Challenged Trotsky last week: "In official Moscow circles they begin to imply, al though in a very vague manner, the possibility of a demand for my extradition. I welcome this idea warmly. What is more, for my part, I demand that the Russian Government present such a request...
...some unexplained manner the black powder exploded, prematurely set off the dynamite charge...
Less ambitiously contrived than such past celluloid legal biographies as The Mouthpiece (Warners) and For The Defense (Paramount), Man of the People is rather a character sketch than a story. In spite of its quiet manner and narrative form, it carries the conviction that always clings to an interesting subject handled with a minimum of frills. This conviction depends on accumulated detail and testifies to Screen Playwright Frank Dolan's diligent observation in the days when he was covering trials for Manhattan newspapers...