Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About Mr. Jones there is an air of large, handsome magnanimity which Col. House never possessed. The House manner was too quiet not to be ulterior. If Mr. Jones wants to be another House, he conceals it beneath the air of a man who would under write the Democratic party as gladly as he would buy suits for a Boy Scout ball team...
...last week of being first to entertain Maurice Ravel, French composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program made up of works...
...Civil War, these two young Bostonians carried on a highly interesting correspondence. Ropes was at the time a student of law, while Gray was an officer in the Union Army. Their letters are of the greatest value as a source book of first-hand information, reproducing in a lively manner the day-by-day progress of the Civil War. Illustrated...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
Charpentier has followed the dramatic method of his teacher Massenet, "Louise" is significant for its abundant melodic invention, its captivating coloristic treatment of the orchestra, and for the ingenfous manner in which he has woven the songs by which the peddlers announce their calling into the introduction and first scene of the second act. The role of "Louise" is conspicuously suited to the histrionic and musical abilities of Miss Garden, and the opera as a whole presents a graphic picture of a Bohemian Paris which has almost ceased to exist...