Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently had occasion to go to the Harvard loan office to inquire about the possibility and conditions of receiving a loan. The secretary informed me in a haughty manner that I (and presumably everyone else) should not attend Harvard if my financial resources are inadequate. I hope this attitude is not representative of the university as a whole...
...improved feeling between the Hill and the White House lay in the performance of Major General Wilton B. (for Burton) Persons, successor to New Hampshire's Sherman Adams as Assistant to the President of the U.S. The difference between Sherm Adams and "Jerry" Persons is more of manner than method. Adams was the stern, testy New Englander, all business and no chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives...
...royal manner, De Gaulle was well aware that there was disaffection in his realm. Dryly, he conceded that Communist gains in France's municipal elections (TIME, March 23) stemmed in part from discontent with his austerity program. The press ("Excuse me. Messieurs les journalistes") had not accented the positive about austerity: the franc had been devalued by 17%, yet prices had since risen only 4%. "Now," said De Gaulle proudly, "we can meet any form of public expenditure without inflation. It is 20 years since that has happened. The value of our currency is uncontested in the world...
Your article accurately presented my basic reasons for vetoing the proposed Sunday Closing Law [which would close grocery, clothing, etc., stores on Sundays-March 2]. However, I regret the manner of the article's presentation, which made it appear a direct conflict between myself and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which I am an active member...
...words came slowly at first, then faster; and they ran together in a manner that was more than faintly suggestive of that new language created within the past decade by Casey Stengel. Shepard's discourse had much of the charm of Stengelese, and fortunately it was far less confusing. It seemed, somehow, as if all baseball coaches ought to talk that...