Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unjust ones, there is always the possibility of appeal, and a change of tutors. This would not be done by those who really were coasting. If there are tutors or deans who are inclined to be too lenient in their exemptions, this could be corrected in the present manner. The change would be a great and important one, but it would be a matter of degree. So long as some such shift or decentralization does not appear, the full advantages of the tutorial system and of the body of deans cannot be achieved...
...Jean Parker's manner is that of a ten-year-old. Any girl of 18 who behaved so would be considered a low moron...
...midst of his act in a Pittsburgh theatre, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante pranced off the stage, ran up an aisle, stopped at the seat of Mrs. Evelyn Loether, contractor's wife. Then, according to Mrs. Loether, he "seized her in an indiscreet manner. He made an unlawful, illegal assault upon her. . . . He put his arms around her neck and forced her head against his. He kissed her left cheek, slobbered on her face." Mrs. Loether "cowered in embarrassment" and, two days later, sued for $5,000 damages. Said Comedian Durante: "Aw, it's just one of those things...
Page upon page of the report was devoted to the Bowman personality. The professors found him "a man of extraordinary personal charm, unassuming in manner, always courteous but never offensively so . . . a man of culture sensitive to the esthetic side of life, a man whose true nature is that of the artist and the mystic...
...series of 25 letters in the manner of the weekly Kiplinger service, the booklet was written before the Supreme Court decision on gold. But in a last-minute review in the inside front cover, Mr. Kiplinger declares: "Things which happen today, like gold clause decisions, are of less importance in the effort to calculate the WHAT and the WHEN of inflation than things which happened months or even years...