Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kill Chiang? It was singular that Nanking-censored dispatches should carry reports that the Dictator's wife, Mme Chiang, was out of sympathy with the manner in which her brother-in-law, Acting Premier Kung, was handling the situation last week. He sent thousands of troops hurrying to attempt to encircle Sian, and he claimed there was extreme need of haste because Chinese Communist troops were dusting down from the interior toward Sian. The trouble with such Communists is that they are un-Chinese in important respects. If they ever laid hands on the Dictator, whose troops have killed...
...Secretary Sir John Simon, had not His Majesty's Government been today in possession of the most binding engagements signed by Mrs. Simpson not to divulge these secrets. It was also necessary, for the highest reasons of State and also for other reasons, to establish in an official manner whether or not last week Mrs. Simpson was with child, as suggested by the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre...
...winter was approaching, and the beaver were kept indoors. Transplanted beaver try to get back to their old homes before a freeze-up, particularly when they have stored away a winter's food supply, and in their anxiety swim long distances, get lost, "and run around in a manner directly contrary to their usual habits." Grey Owl had already wired his wife, Anahareo, who was visiting her parents in Ontario, to come help him, and the two Indians had their hands full. They could only sleep in the forenoon, when the beaver slept. The rest...
...mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner, and that this overture to womanhood causes an occasional girl to sneeze uncontrollably. That, a gynecologist might guess, was the trouble with Mary Cleer...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...