Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bandwagon of amateur football has been wobbling dangerously of late, but few of its enemies have expressed the desire to topple it over in the crude manner of the undergraduates at Charlottesville. It is one thing to call a spade a spade, but quite another to show Virginia's complete lack of respect for the other side of the question. That university should realize that the remedy for a poor football team is to concentrate upon the development of a better one and not the attitude of many American schools who desire to have "the best team money...
Last winter the work on the door was uncovered by restorers from the Fogg, somewhat in the manner of a repainted old masterpieces, and now resumes its former importance. The paintings cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged...
...amplifying system has been installed to carry the tunes into the Dining Room so that plenty of room will be available for dancing. Don Gahan has scored big hits in two previous House affairs this season; his band features special arrangements in the Hudson-Delange manner...
This has always been the case between China and Japan, neither State ever being willing to let citizens of either country know what their betters are demanding or yielding. But Japanese demands are always intentionally drawn in a manner so loose that, if China accepts, her yielding can later be stretched to several times the length of a reasonable interpretation. The London Titties recently suggested that there might be some justice in Ambassador Kawagoe's reputed demand that "China must recognize the special position of Japan in North China" if only Foreign Minister General Chang could win a concession...
Next to our native land, Japan seems to have the wheels spinning in a more orderly manner than eleswhere. No vulgar civil wars disturb the little yellow men, one of whom has just won a contest by raising a beard five inches longer than he is, far surpassing both of the Smith Brothers. This remarkable personification of Japanese resource carries his growth in a handbag when he goes walking, so as not to sully the end. So far from being confused, he seems to have a very highly developed philosophy of life. And with a beard like that, he must...