Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in the same manner Gen. Dawes rushed out of the vice presidency with a farewell speech in which he swung his arms, shot his cuffs and shouted that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
Politics had nothing to do with the Mitchell appointment, because he boasts that he is an "oldfashioned independent Democrat," except that he voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924, Hoover in 1928. Slender, brown-eyed, gently persuasive in manner, a sailor of summer boats on White Bear Lake, Minn., Mr. Mitchell is a practicing Dry, a Presbyterian...
...Boston, the new Secretary is called "The Deacon." His collar used to be of the high-stand-up kind; his cuffs are still stiffly white and detachable; his manner to strangers is austere...
...brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner. The difficulty of confining contributors entirely to college subjects would not be the least of the trials of the college literary publication embarking upon this policy. Nevertheless this obstacle ought not to be insurmountable and the experiment would be worth trying...
They flew to Washington where, at the French ambassador's, Joseph LeBrix tried to punch Dieudonné Costes' nose in the American manner. The French foot-fighting against the one-legged flyer manifestly would have been dastardly. For appearance's sake they restrained the show of their animosity as they flew across the U. S., as they sailed by ship to Japan, as again they flew across Asia and Europe, to Le Bourget Field at Paris. And there Flyer LeBrix had his great say. It was, harshly: "At last I have finished being valet to Costes...