Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cues were not long in coming, and they were sensational. They did not please either France or Britain. First, Herr Hitler notified Europe's chancelleries in the most direct manner possible that Germany wanted back the colonies she lost in the World War, colonies now largely held by Britain and France. Second, the Führer implied that Germany would stand by Italy in a Mediterranean crisis, declared that the two nations were determined to "defend our common interests together...
EVEN DOCTORS DIE-Lindsay Anson-Crime Club ($2). Reporter Peter Allen sticks his neck out when he tries to solve the murders of two famed British doctors and a nurse. Provocative plot, mixing a hard-boiled American manner with stiffish Scotland Yard technique...
...annual report, made public yesterday, Holmes stressed the necessity of a scientific knowledge of the various educational problems to a teacher. He attacked the numerous false standards employed by secondary school authorities in the selection of a teacher, declaring that a pleasant "beside manner" alone did not qualify a man to teach...
...teachers must be taught to teach in this manner, the fact must be recognized. It must be recognized by the arts and sciences faculties, for it is only by their cooperation that the training can be brought about. Harvard has to an extent recognized it in the Board for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, composed jointly of professors in Arts and Sciences and professors of Education. Candidates for the degree become proficient in their chosen subject under the former, and study the science of teaching under the latter. But a greater degree of cooperation is necessary...
...background of this ridiculous theme which makes the play interesting. The character of Lennie is developed in such a manner that he is not so much a hapless idiot as he is a well meaning child who has no idea of his own strength. Furthermore, the dialogue is lean and vivid, and the supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their...