Word: manneredness
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He speaks and even seems to think with a stammer-but the halt is strangely touching. In song, his voice quavers and breaks, but then he catches it, and it rises to a shriek that ends on a cheerless blue note. He rocks in rhythm across the keyboard of his...
George Gordon Byron's courtship was as mannered as a Jane Austen novel and his honeymoon as melodramatic as The Mysteries of Udolpho. On the famous drive of the bridal pair from Seaham to Halnaby, Byron's "countenance changed to gloom & defiance as soon as we got into...
- > Toronto's Maple Leafs: the Stanley Cup playoffs, for the second year in a row, beating the Detroit Red Wings four games to one to win pro ice hockey's biggest prize. A mixture of callow youths and creaking veterans, the Leafs confounded experts by finishing the regular...
∙ To mild-mannered Toshio Inoue, 62, chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, there was nothing inscrutable about last week's dizzy stock-buying splurge in Japan. Said Inoue, unruffled: "The bull market is here to stay for some time, and considering the circumstances, I believe it is natural...
Cables from Cairo. Out of the Government and divorced from his wife, Philby returned to newspapering; seven years ago he went to the Middle East for the Economist and the Observer and married his third wife, Eleanor, whose former husband is Sam Pope Brewer, once the New York Times'...