Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to congratulate you exterminating upon your most effective manner of examining one James L Milstead, as a reader of TIME. My personal opinion is that you have lost nothing and gained much by so doing. It is my personal opinion that he is the outstanding type of that particular class of individuals who find plenty of good in your publication until his and your ideas do not harmonize...
...John Coolidge, home from Amherst for Easter, entertained his college-mates Jack Hills and Edward Young in a manner they will not soon forget, as White House guests. . . . Mrs. Coolidge left Washington to go to Northampton, Mass., where her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue long ill, was reported to be "in a critical condition...
Enter the solver of the murders, Philo Vance. He smokes expensive, heady cigarets. He drawls, diverts, digresses. He likes Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...
Like all of Author Wylie's works, Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard exists entirely for its manner. Author Wylie is, it is true, writing again a history of the old battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...
...Jubilee, the paramount social event of every first year class, is not what is used to be in the days of its origin. When the Class of 1931 gathers in the Smith Hall quadrangle the latter part of May for its festivities, it will celebrate in an entirely different manner from the Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz frolic beneath multicolored lights to the tune...