Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Madrid had not yet fallen, even though its Government had been chased out, Hitler and Mussolini were acting in a manner deliberately premature when they recognized Franco. Spokesmen at Berlin and at Rome made ingenious comparisons, asking foreign correspondents to reflect on precedents afforded by their own governments. Thus President Theodore Roosevelt, whether or not he provoked an insurgent rising in the United States of Colombia, made haste to recognize the insurgents in the Colombian province of Panama and as his reward obtained the Canal Zone, ultimately squaring Colombia with $25,000,000. Had Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent...
...three centimetres and a third at two centimetres. The leucotome is then entirely removed from the brain and re-introduced in an anterolateral [front and side] direction into the same prefrontal lobe where cores are cut at a depth of 4.5 cm., 3.5 cm. and 2.5 cm. In like manner six spherical cuts or cores are made in the other frontal lobes...
...good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than his brother Hale, who appears in small movie parts, usually as the smugly successful business executive not adverse to a shady deal...
...Dickens's immortal Christmas play; while Irving G. Fine '37, accompanist for the Glee Club, is composing music somewhat more complicated than the Gilbert and Sullivan variety. The score is said to contain not only tricky rhythmic figures, but also more than a few dissonances in the modern manner...
...poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were of the "not quite" variety-she was almost unfaithful to her architect husband, nearly left him, came close...