Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner-these attributes make her one of the outstanding women...
...family, fled the U.S. to escape prosecution, seldom paid his debts, deceived both his wives, and led many a simple shopgirl down the garden path. Yet, as O. Henry, he also wrote some of literature's most engaging short stories, and he had a grace of mind and manner that won nearly all who met him. Even one of his mothers-in-law said fervently: "Will was a noble man with a true heart...
...Yokohama hospital a Navyman with the mumps stared blearily at a Japanese magazine and started seeing things. To Lieut. Commander Bryant W. Line, who does not read Japanese, the stylized dabs and curlicues of the brushwork characters, known as Kanji, conjured up all manner of fanciful situations: poker players in a pup tent, an irate baseball umpire, a boy peering wistfully into a saloon...
...SURPRISE OF CREMONA, by Edith Templeton (295 pp.; Harper; $3.50), combines good sense with a special sensibility in a tour of six Italian cities. British Author Templeton's manner is direct and disconcerting, and it will take an agile reader to duck her dicta. Samples...
...protested against the shortness of human life and against the instability of all things by being as alive as they possibly could be. They ate sensations by the spoonful and turned themselves into a salad of all sorts of contradictory human qualities. We today behave in the opposite manner. We imagine that the less different and the less conspicuous we are, the less we shall be noticed by the forces of life and the safer we shall...