Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident that befalls...
After six days and nights of meetings, high Administration officials have drafted a general plan designed to keep the stock, foreign exchange and commodity markets operating in as orderly a manner as possible should hostilities begin...
...most practical manner of opening up avenues of international trade to the end that every nation of the earth may be enabled to buy and sell on equal terms in the world market, as well as to possess assurance of obtaining the materials and products of peaceful economic life...
Characteristically, the German press built up a horror campaign, screaming that Polish excesses toward Germans were "increasing in an alarming manner." In the village of Altdorf, said one report, "three Germans were beaten by Poles with clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen...
Fifty years ago the London County Council, created by the Local Government Act of 1888, set about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens...