Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After they had brought in a verdict of guilty in Manchester Assizes last week, a horror-struck jury of townsfolk and farmers were rewarded in a manner almost unprecedented in the annals of British justice. Cried Presiding Justice Singleton: "I excuse you all from jury service for the rest of your lives because of the dreadful and gruesome details you have been forced to hear...
...Mary Jane Rogerson, Dr. Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse the entire face, stripping it off the skull with his scalpels and completing his attempt at sex-obliteration in the most thorough manner. Later cutting off the faceless head, he wrapped it in an old white blouse which had been patched under the arms. He sawed off arms and legs which he wrapped in sheets from the London Sunday Graphic for Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor...
...human being, Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip is a large, lugubrious, burly man with a commanding voice and manner. These may be qualities of value in standing up to the truculent British generals, admirals and air marshals of the Committee of Imperial Defense. The Prime Minister not only appointed Sir Thomas his deputy last week but also raised him to full Cabinet rank as Britain's first Secretary of State for Coordination of Defense...
...acted far younger than his 57 years. He won their admiration at once by the thoroughness and courage with which he tackled Hopkins' troubles. On the human side, however, they found him harder to know, wondered for a time what was behind his courteous, smiling but aloof manner. They have now decided that it is chiefly an intense absorption in his job. After eight months, most of the strangeness between Baltimore and President Bowman has worn off, and his sincerity and honesty are universally conceded. But a remark still frequently heard around city and campus...
...tutor, were not lived up to, out the student would be fired into an easier, though more disciplinary course, with hour exams, quizzes, compulsory attendance, regular papers, and an extra full course per year to take the place of the time formerly spent in tutorial. In this manner, men with ability would be induced to work hard with their tutors, and at the same time those who could not live up to the standards of self-education would get a thorough training more suitable to them...