Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Challenged, in bristling manner, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's ability to balance the U. S. budget; offered Mr. Taft "a handsome prize" if he would show the President how it could be done...
...spies an unfair labor practice, members were interested in a blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...
...Smith College, were appointed co-chairmen of the sponsoring committee to arrange the conference for Protection of Foreign Born. Keynoted Co-Chairman Neilson: "Noncitizens are being denied jobs and are being threatened with registration. More than 70 so-called anti-alien bills pending in the 76th Congress indicate the manner in which the attacks upon the freedom of the noncitizen can be used...
Christopher Morley has again hit bestseller lists with "Kitty Foyle," a novel about a young lady in Philadelphia. It's off the beaten track of Morley novels, and therefore all the more welcome . . . Lloyd C. Douglas' "Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal" is another in the manner of "Green Light" and "White Banners." Others will presently be forthcoming, it is to be presumed . . . "Escape," by Ethel Vance, is a sensitive and moving story of he Nazi regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham...
...which exists. The Sargent paintings, on the other hand, although interesting and well done, prove only that Sargent knew how to handle a brush. His remarkable dexterity is admirably suited for his subject matter, which consists primarily of wooded scenes and luxuriant foliage, done in a swiftly executed, impressionistic manner. Sargent represented nature in a style that certainly indicates that he knew what he was seeing; Hopper, however, interprets nature in a way that leads one to believe that he can understand certain things which lie beyond his immediate field of vision. In other words, Hopper is the more intelligent...