Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amazingly last week the British Delegation were sniped at in a manner definitely "not cricket" by hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. He suddenly took it on himself to say that the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister had no authority from Britain's Cabinet to make fresh commitments at Stresa last week or at Geneva this week when the League Council meets. Mr. Chamberlain hinted that Mr. MacDonald and Sir John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted...
...educational leaflets distributed each year. Two were employees whom business concerns needed to keep healthy. The other 95 were holders of insurance policies whom insurance companies wanted to keep alive as long as possible. Insurance companies paid for these examinations by the Life Extension Institute in precisely the same manner that private doctors are paid for making examinations of applicants for insurance. This seemed to private doctors a potential loss of fees amounting to some three or four million dollars...
...thin custard, vegetable soup and brewers' yeast. After the fever subsided, one-half ounce of cod liver oil was added. She gained weight so rapidly that the caloric value had to be reduced. When swallowing returned, the catheter was placed in her mouth. She still drinks in this manner, lying on her back with her head turned to the side...
...Parthian shaft in more ways than one, Grey Granite closes the romantic story of Chris Colquohoun (pronounced "Gaboon") in a manner that may take its readers somewhat aback. After surviving the two husbands of the earlier books, Chris has gone with her grown-up son Ewan to the industrial town of Duncairn. There she spends her days in drudgery as partner in a boarding house, while Ewan starts work at an iron foundry. Written in the same earthy dialect as its predecessors, Grey Granite is peopled with no less salty characters, but the sign of the restless times lies heavier...
...University was having its twenty-fourth birthday. Over the sunbaked quadrangles bustled the black-cloaked figures of the men and women who were about to graduate. Hardy sons and daughters of the soil, brought there by the new wealth, they walked and talked in the manner of sober doers. Some day they would be the teachers, doctors, and ministers of the new state...