Word: manship
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...Detective Maline and drove him to a luncheonette. They parked and got out of the car. When they returned, they found a key in the car, with a note directing Maline to the Trailways bus station and locker 0911. Then, in the finest traditions of cloak-and-dagger-manship, the driver reportedly stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed...
...considered slightly gauche to put four epigraphs on your title page, and Carlos Baker, a Princeton University professor and literary critic who has been smart for a long time, tastefully begins his book with only two quotations, neither from Kierkegaard. But there are subtler sorts of title-page-manship, and Baker uses one of the most telling: the subtitle, or direction for use, of The Land of Rumbelow is A Fable in the Form of a Novel. Baker means to put the reader on notice that the events he describes are not to be taken only for themselves; they illustrate...
...Every Aggie joins the uniformed Corps of Cadets for at least two years. Senior cadets ("leather-legs") may wear breeches, boots and spurs, and mercilessly haze the freshmen ("fish"), who at all times "whip out" (shake hands) and cry: "Howdy! Fish So-and-so is my name, sir!" He-manship is undying. Hearty lads skin deer in the showers, carry Volkswagens up four flights of dormitory stairs, and work round-the-clock piling timber 100 ft. high for the purgative bonfire before the Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since 1894, against...
...subject matter of courses is not always the basis for students' nicknames. The renowned Chem 20 is known affectionately as "Feisers' Folly"; the show-manship of Eugene Rochow has won the nomenclature "Black Magic" for his Chem 1, also known as "Kiddie Chem"; Fine Arts 13 (MWF at 12) and occasionally Philosophy 75 (TuTh at 12), are called "Darkness at Noon...
...years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop...