Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party in the House.* The new Congressman is an engaging young man, thoroughly Nordic in appearance, thoroughly accommodating in manner...
...officially recognized painter in Italy, an instructor in Florence's Academia di Belle Arte. He was born in Turin in 1880 and studied largely by himself. His painting has traversed the usual "periods," Romantic, Classic, Modern. The Studio, though recent, gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator...
...people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil's Pit are not modern but ancient men. Producer Lew Collins took a year photographing them in New Zealand. Flabby Maoris desperately fight with sticks and spears, standing face to face in the Japanese manner, all because one chief's son has killed his rival for the hand of another's daughter. The story is simple enough to keep moving under its weight of rather dull local color-Maoris feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their...
...Springfield, N. J., an automobile proceeded down the road in a manner that interested a motorcycle patrolman. Drawing alongside, he found Driver Frank Urban, his hands off the wheel, peering into a compass...
...probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher-and-drill-pupil manner he conducted his classes in South American history at Yale...