Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great tribute you have paid my father, N. C. Wyeth [Nov. 18], is most heartily acknowledged by all of us here at Chadds Ford. The manner in which you reproduced and presented his work was as rich and full as his own personality...
...tests of nuclear bombs. "It has been claimed that a nuclear test can be noticed around the world and that a ban on tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most obvious manner. There can be no doubt that if a nation wants to carry out tests in secrecy, observation will become difficult and uncertain. In the contest between the bootlegger and the police, the bootlegger has a great advantage...
...just one more sentimental-satiric yarn about a fake who floods a dull hole with genuine gaiety. It has, besides, its sinking spells of wit and mild attacks of cuteness. More damagingly, the second act has an air of playing back much of the first, repeating all manner of effects. Fortunately, The Music Man can even walk backward and downhill with considerable élan; there is no denying the bounce of the show...
Jean Kerr, wife of drama critic Walter Kerr, has written what must be the season's most popular new book, Please Don't Eat The Daisies. It is written in a light, off-hand manner. The saleswoman claimed it was "simply delightful...
...LION AND THE THRONE, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Biography in the grand manner; the life and times of Sir Edward Coke, who became the watchdog of the common law, bluntly told British kings that law was their sovereign and defined legal principles that stand triumphant three centuries later...