Word: manneredness
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The family fortune was founded, like many U.S. fortunes, about 100 years ago. Henry Phipps, the mild-mannered, warmhearted son of a shoemaker in Allegheny, Pa., found himself in the steel business with one of his neighbors, a weaver's son named Andrew Carnegie. His daughter Amy, a remarkable...
"I wait until the last minute, when I'm about five feet away," he says, and when he barrels into the base in an explosion of dust, no one knows which hand or elusive toe will reach out to nick the bag. Yet he goes in for none of...
Sadoveanu's curiously dated writing style is most evident in Tales of War. Amidst a "hail of lead" and the "yelp" of guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet...
-After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll...
Creating Connotations. There is nothing straightforward about Iris Murdoch's intentions, however. The mannered maneuverings that bring so little about hold a marvelous suspense as the author reveals a racy richness of motive and confusion. It becomes clear that at the heart of An Unofficial Rose lies a far...