Word: manners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall of 1939 lends a bewildering touch of the Princeton-Yale-Harvard manner of dress to a Hanover once resplendent in overalls. The principal clothiers of the town are featuring better materials and higher prices. On the streets we hear for the first time in our college career the small talk of the well dressed man, of "shetlands," and "whalebones," of "herring bones," and "tailored by." Dress has become for the first time at Dartmouth, not a physical consideration, but mental and spiritual as well...
...monograph on the payment of retail executives published today by the Bureau of Business Research, Baker points out that executives must be rewarded in a manner which will develop an appreciation of their responsibilities to society...
...ends Ivy Williamson has plenty of material--none of it more than adequate. Joe Zilly, the only letterman, is a tall rangy Junior, especially adept at snaring passes in the old Kelley manner, and may be developed into a first-class end if he can overcome his weakness on the defense. Brownie Brinkley, another Senior, played well early last season but was forced to drop football. Al Bartholemy, a Sophomore, and Tom Lussen, another Senior, better noted for his pole-vaulting prowess, are due for plenty of active service...
...father was interned by the British authorities in a routine manner," stated Egon Hanfstaengl, son of the ex-Nazi foreign press chief, when asked to comment on his father's arrest in Scotland Sunday...
Although this resurrection of the dying moments of the Dual Monarchy makes for vivid reading, one wishes that Miss Harding had elaborated on the wider significance of events which led directly to profound changes in the European map. In an almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed...