Word: manner
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Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton's Kentucky nudges the Mason-Dixon line, and his appointment offers calculated appeal to Southerner and Midwesterner alike. Morton is the seventh-generation member of a leading Kentucky family, a Yale graduate with citified manners and a Brooks Brothers look about him. Yet not even the backwoods folks of Kentucky mistake him for anything but what he is: a tough politician in a state that grows tough politicians. Big (6 ft. 2 in. and 190 lbs.) Thruston Morton is a shade to the rough-cut side of Mark Hatfield. But his vibrant voice...
...classic Holmes manner, Justice Brennan relies on Harvard Law Professor Paul Freund (who clerked for Justice Brandeis) to send him the best he has. Justice Douglas relies on a West Coast lawyer named Stanley Sparrowe. The others do more scouting and interviewing on their own. Justice Stewart is high on Yalemen, Justice White favors Westerners, Chief Justice Warren looks for Californians. Justice Black likes fellow Alabamians; Justice Clark tries to tap lesser-known law schools. Aspirants know all these quirks. "My best chance was either slipping in as one of Stewart's Yalies," said one of this year...
...spectator sport may be charged with a serious crime. The police, who busied themselves with trying to move the mobs back, were apparently unaware of it, but New York State has two highly relevant laws. Section 2304 of the state penal law says: "A person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking the latter's life, is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree." Section 2305 adds that incitement is a felony ever if the would-be suicide survives...
...confessing that she had committed adultery with Bertie when he was Prince of Wales "often, and in open day," it proved embarrassing but not fatal, because Bertie had played his part honorably-visiting her Ladyship secretly and in a hired brougham in mid-afternoon and never behaving in a manner to embarrass Lord Charles when they were fellow guests on a country weekend...
...Administration is properly interested in the sex life of Harvard students, then it would not be improper for the HCUA to be interested in the mores and morals of our mentors, the Harvard Faculty." He thought the investigation could be handled "in the same calm and constructive manner exhibited by the Deans last Fall," stressing he was certain that "the vast majority of the Faculty are not guilty of any improperties...