Word: manners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Merry Widow" fame, has the leading role and her work, after the first act, makes the evening more than satisfactory. She features in waltzes in a way that makes one long to be the leading man. Essentially a Latin type, Miss Abarbanell uses her voice in a most stirring manner and, as a Russian dancer, is true to form in carriage as well. She has many tricks of the eye, shoulders and head that seem almost even Spanish...
...satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet and in his three quatrains, "Poets Forgotten" there is everywhere abundant grace, charm, case of manner, and a rare sense of verbal music...
Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo, the son of a tinman of Borgo San Sepolcro who settled in Siena, was born about 1435. He was considered the best Sienese painter of his time and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro and improved it by modernizing it. His ablest authentic picture, "The Virgin Entroned with Angeles" (1470) is in the Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject...
According to many straw votes and public expressions of opinion the majority of men in the University voted against the present administration last November. During the past few months this same majority has criticized the re-elected President upon his slow manner of solving our international difficulties. Whether his methods have been right or wrong can only be properly judged by the next generation. We cannot help realizing that the obstacles in his path have been unprecedented in size and seriousness. The time has come for this majority to forget their preferences of last year and show themselves as whole...
...Officers and enlisted men will render the prescribed salutes in a military manner the officer junior in rank or the enlisted man saluting first. When several officers in company are saluted, all entitled to the salute shall return...