Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homemade Gingerbread. What Candidate McGonigle lacks in political experience he makes up in genial man-to-man manner. Born of Scotch-Irish Methodist parents in Kane, Pa., McGonigle worked his way through Kane High and Temple University, was a General Foods driver-salesman until he took charge at $30 a week of the shaky Bachman Pretzel Bakery in Reading, and began rocketing its output with automatic pretzel benders and cellophane packages. Last year G.O.P. State Chairman George Bloom, trying to salvage something of the G.O.P. wreckage left by the Grundy and Fine machines, persuaded Pretzel King McGonigle to become...
Norm Patz, Dave Hayes, and Peter Edelman are properly amateur actors, but play respectively the French ambassador, Chief Justice, and Alexander Throttlebottom (the vice president, in case you haven't heard) in a more than amateur manner. Hayes has a good voice, Patz a sure sense of timing, and Edelman a deep insight into the complexities of the character he portrays...
...standing up. A letter in a recent Alumni Bulletin describes his in sistence on a table and chair that would fit "a boy five feet, five and one-half inches tall" and a cloth long enough to hide his legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always attended him. Cross-drafts, coughing and similar annoyances received no tolerance. Before speaking, he would give the audience...
...consummate artist, who knew all the tricks of rhetoric and histrionics." Most undergraduates feared his outbursts of temper, which were provoked by any rude or unprepared students. Despite the intellectual stimulation provided by his classes, most of the stories about them idealize his imperious and domineering manner...
...President's summer residence, empty at this time of year, and riddled it with bullets. The government banned all demonstrations and ordered all pictures of Nasser pulled down. There was a brief Cabinet crisis, in which Premier Solh shuffled his ministers in a faintly propitiatory manner...