Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display of cultural and industrial wares. It was a milestone in the new day of person-to-person diplomacy, and both sides were aware of the high stakes. President Eisenhower had shifted his schedule to fly up to meet Kozlov. because 1) he was genuinely interested in seeing what manner of $10 million show the Russians had opened at the U.S. front door, and 2) he was more interested in seeing that Vice President Nixon gets the same kind of reciprocal top-level treatment when he opens the U.S. exposition in Moscow on July 25. For his part, genial Frol...
Crown, Family & Horses. She takes seriously her task of being Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Queen of Canada, Queen of Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Ghana and South Africa-and in manner she grows increasingly queenly. Not long ago a palace official who has known her since childhood leaned his arm on a mantel in Her Majesty's presence. "Are you tired?" she asked. He replied: "No, ma'am. Why?" Said Elizabeth: "Because I think you should stand up straight when you are talking to me." She runs her royal household strictly-and with a clear awareness...
...almost desperate effort to differentiate from the U.S., Canada proliferates Queen's highways, Queen's Counsels, Queen's Own Rifles, and all manner of "Royal" establishments. The Crown appears on mailboxes and military insignia, the Queen's portrait on ashtrays, saucers, and brooches, as well as on coins and paper money. No one smokes at a.banquet until a toast has been drunk to the Queen...
Tall, russet-haired, regal of bearing, Ethel spoke to all ages. Her elders admired her art; her pre-World War I contemporaries copied her manner of speech, the way she walked, even the proud tilt of her head.. She belonged not to Broadway or to Hollywood, but to the country. For Ethel Barrymore became a star in an era when no star stayed put. A few months in Manhattan were always followed by tours to other cities-and all were equally important...
...Mercutio did Shakespeare give the celebrated Queen Mab speech, one of the great virtuoso arias in the language. Smithers delivers this faery monologue in a slow, sloppy, slovenly manner, with no heed to what he is saying, when the speech should be, in Mercutio's own words, "as thin of substance...