Word: manners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What manner of man is he? How did he keep himself from tossing about in the throes of sleep and scrambling the egg ? To what does TIME attribute this astonishing muscular control? From all appearances it would seem that Mr. Ryder is better fitted to show the public "How to Sleep" than Robert Benchley...
...inconvenience ourselves just to sell to democracies. Thus the policy of the West consists mainly of an aloofness from anything not immediately our concern and affecting our interests. They feel that the United States should let the rest of the world go its own way. Only in this manner can this country make the best out of a bad situation...
Only a remarkably sturdy constitution could have withstood the series of painful breakdowns which sapped the strength of Pope Pius XI for almost three years. His early love for mountain climbing and his simple manner of living kept him in excellent health until he was well into his seventies. But for the last three years the sick man of Europe has kept devout Catholics, as well as reporters and radio commentators, awake many a night as he spectacularly battled death...
Beethoven, the Vagabond reflected, was a typical Harvard man. He had all the earmarks. In the first place, he was almost constantly in love. Arrogant and tactless, without any graces of appearance or manner, he nevertheless completely vanquished the Venetian belles. He spent fortunes on fashionable clothes, he took dancing lessons, he was often at court-in short, he got around; and one friend once said of him that he could make a conquest "very difficult if not impossible for an Adonis." But when he proposed to the beautiful Magdalena Willmann, she laughed and termed him ugly and half crazy...
...went deaf before he was thirty and still composed some of the most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine...