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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed in the cast as "Madame Burgomaster," and Louis Jouvet as the sanctimonious, swirking friar who with tongue in check calls a gift of sweetmeats to himself "an homage to God," are all in the best French high comedy manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...bothered by this difficulty, as the CRIMSON has aimed at simplicity throughout in its presentation of the returns. No partiality will be shown whatsoever, every effort being made to give this great service to the voters of the University and of the City of Cambridge in such a manner that all may gaze, react, and instantly understand the full import of the epoch-making events that will be portrayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Returns to Be Flashed From Bell-Tower of Old Appleton Chapel in Revolutionary Fashion | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

...wish to submit a strong protest against the dilatory manner in which the fellow supposed to rill the column, Miscellany, is attending to his duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries, it is nevertheless modern in spirit, presents a picture of social anarchy that few readers are likely to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cripure | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...only one who has gone to pieces over the strewing of anatomical members hither and yon in Boston harbor. Probably since the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least since Jessic Costello cleaned her boiler, Boston has never had such a good time in its traditional macabre manner. But the current scavenger hunt for the missing "mutilated torso" has them all beat for journalistic interest. It is certain that if Charles Dickens were living today his words would be, "Oops, there goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which the affair is viewed show an interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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