Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing Improper." After 28 hours of vibrant silence, Harry Vaughan issued a statement. Its gist: it was all his fault, but he was innocent. ". . . There was nothing improper in any manner regarding the gifts of these units . . ." it read. "I had a talk with two old friends of mine . . . The subject of deep freeze units came up and I said that I would like to have...
...Quite Necessary?" Both Adenauer, in his smooth and sibilant manner, and Schumacher, in his sharp and strident way, railed at Allied "interference" in German affairs and especially at dismantling of German industrial plants. One-armed, one-legged Schumacher had to be helped up onto the rostrum (see cut), but his rhetoric was as vigorous as ever. Cried he last week: "The Allies have no right to condemn the entire German people because of Naziism. All European nations were for a time Nazi followers. Western EuroDe continued to conclude treaties with Hitler at a period when hundreds of thousands of German...
When the Soviet people heard about our marriage advertisements, they were astonished that anyone could . . . offer himself in this manner. This was a capitalist practice . . ." Some of these capitalist ads, complained Rude Pravo, still got into the papers "veiled as advertisements asking for or offering to become a 'housekeeper...
...shrieks echoed on their own stage, particularly in the works of Eugene O'Neill and in some of Lillian Hellman's more unpleasant plays. Strindberg wrote straight historic drama, sunny fairy-tale plays and symbolic fantasies. But he is most noted for his dramatization-in a manner as unnerving as chalk scratching on a blackboard-of seemingly ordinary families in which hatred and insanity screech at each other over the tea cozy...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...