Word: manners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state but a democratic nation of traders, Great Britain. Although overtaken in many Latin American countries by the U. S. and pressed hard in others, in Argentina Britain still holds a handful of trump cards and by last week it became apparent that she is playing them in a manner calculated to take all the tricks...
...Huckleberry Finn, its humor at once grotesque and shrewd, its moral at once grim and humane. The convict, with his thoughtless courage, his exasperation at the titanic forces unleashed against him, is Faulkner's most original and attractive character. And the whole book is conceived in the grand manner. Faulkner makes you feel the terrible fragility of man's levees, boats, prisons, other civilized trappings; he suggests that man's life is a little like the bewildered spin of the convict in the current, attended by a woman and child, never sure of where he is going...
...world's best, and this year's outfit demonstrates only too clearly to the spectator the appalling ups and downs invariably associated with a coaching career, and the very great effect a change in the quality of material can have on the success or failure of a team. The manner in which Coach Ulen has weathered his sudden change in fortune has marked him as a credit to the coaching profession and to his college...
...bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make it unlawful to design, engrave, print or in any manner make or execute anything in the likeness of any obligation...
...recent letter from a young lady to one of us was concluded in what we thought was a most unusual and interesting manner. Quote: "Gooey Gobs of Purple Passion...