Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true innovation of the play is the manner in which a young physician makes several other men's wives fall in love with him. The method used in each case is humorously uniform, but it is clever enough to give him a tremendous practice for a time. What happens when these methods are revealed is the cause of all the trouble...
...scattered over a large city. The village lends itself to the democracy and familiarity that are quite impossible in the metropolis. On the other hand the institution across the way (for which I have a warm spot in my heart) demonstrates democracy after the big, free-and-easy manner of the West, and it is but natural that the democracy of Harvard be governed by the nervous and restrained East. I was indeed pleasantly surprised to find Harvard just as democratic in its way as the institution out West, and with due regard for Mr. Norton's opinions I believe...
...were sent here while boys to be educated at the cost of funds which we repaid to China from the surplus of the Boxer indemnity over the damages chargeable to it. Also high in leadership of private enterprises are still other young China-men taught here in the same manner. If the ex-Emperor is a lad of the right sort, history may be made by him and the manner of his education. --New York Times...
...certain stiffness and restraint in the Harvard manner invariably makes an unfavorable impression on a man accustomed to the breeziness of the free-and-easy West, but it can hardly be taken to mean that there is less of real democracy at Cambridge than in the college towns on the Coast. Harvard democracy is accustomed to express itself in a less demonstrative fashion, that is all, and although it lies deeper beneath the surface, its presence cannot be denied...
Your editorial in today's issue on "Professors and Patriotism" is of deep interest to all Democrats. You deprecate the much "shouting" of the "blind partisans" among our college faculties. So far, so good. Then in some curious manner you imply that only arrant pro-German fanatics have so spoken! Last evening Professor Ellery C. Stowell of Columbia University, speaking at the Labor Temple, New York City, said in his address: "The opinion of the people in this country as to the course of its rulers makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that...