Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debating Council will enter the political arena in an active manner tonight when they engage in a double debate with Yale over the respective merits of Roosevelt and Landon...
Noel Coward is brilliantly demonstrating himself to be about the most agile person on the stage. He can even beat out a pretty fair tap dance but that isn't exactly what's meant. It's the verve and vigor that underlies that ventriloquist's dummy manner of his, that sets one grinning with admiration...
...Women, a pastel-toned oil in the familiar, delicately decadent manner of France's aging Marie Laurencin...
...capital to cope with the social and economic problems of Negroes. From the beginning the Dunbar Apartments rocked precariously on deep tremors of Negro sensitiveness. Rentals were planned at $9 per room per month, to enable Negro workers to support their families without doubling up in the usual Harlem manner of two or three families to an apartment. The rooms were small, the construction poor. To meet maintenance and amortization charges the rents were finally set at $11.50 to $17.50 per month per room. Consequence was that Dunbar residents came primarily from the higher income brackets, which led to charges...
...party to set up telegraph wires on the spot. So poor were the arrangements that some reporters accompanying the president could not squeeze into the hall. Veteran presidential companies can't recall when a chief executive was so thorough rebuffed as FDR was at his alma mater. In his manner and in his cart address joshing Harvard for its dislike of democratic presidents Mr. Roosevelt gave...