Word: manners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the surly manner in which you review Semmes of the Alabama, by W. Adolphe Roberts, is in itself no mean tribute to the subject of the book, and one which gains weight by its very belatedness? . . . The fact that his name rankles in Northern minds 75 years after the event, is sufficient evidence of his efficiency in carrying out his duty...
...recent years, however, Carol has settled down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts...
Established in 1894, C. & E. I. went into receivership in 1913, was reorganized in the oldtime manner in 1920-i.e., left with a top-heavy capitalization. Although the road managed to make a puny net of some $400,000 a year during the booming 205, it began piling up deficits in 1930 ($7,000,000 that year...
Much in the manner of dance ticket sales, cooperating members of the House Committees will be stationed at the entrances to the dining halls to secure signatures in a "Book for Tolerance," and collect the money pledged in this manner...
Norma Terris, playing the tavern girl, owns the show by virtue of her singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...