Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banker Rentschler escaped badgering at the committee's hands largely because of his simple manner of testifying, his refusal to be drawn into arguments with Senators...
...first week is conducted in such a manner as to acquaint the men with their work, and time is given to enable candidates to become acclimated to the atmosphere of a newspaper office. During the examination period work is reduced to a minimum...
...Hoover had appointed Mr. Page to the U. S. advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate...
ROMANCE OF THE RIO GRANDE (Mary Duncan)?Chili con carne in the manner of Edith Wharton, beautifully photographed...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...