Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find no way to vote no-how." Miami's 40,000 Negroes never fret much about white men's elections, but somehow they had, counted on marking crosses on nice new ballots in the April elections. A committee of three leading citizens of the black belt, suave in manner, impeccable in dress, called on the city commission. The Hannibal of the trio made a dignified advance. He said...
...science of adding, subtracting and juggling numbers in a mystical and prophetic manner. There is a sizable hive of numerologists in the U. S., known as the Society of Enumeration, with headquarters in Los Angeles...
...applied by the International Advertising Association with the purpose of finding out what various groups of people believe about religion. Last week, 1,000 hearty Dartmouth College undergraduates, who brave the Hanover (N. H.) winter with the aid of supplies from Canada, answered the following questionnaire in the following manner...
...cumulative and persistent is the undeviating policy of the Popes in orderly succession that the Holy See is seldom forced to act in the brusque and hasty manner of statesmen who feel they have but one life to live and that one short...
Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...