Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making at the Treasury, not a word has been officially said as to where the levies will fall. Although Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is straining to perfect relief plans for the coming winter, nothing has been definitely revealed of how many billions he will spend or in what manner. Plans for NRA's reorganization are being pushed forward-in official obscurity. Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell had been discreetly sent on a junket to Rome (see p. 16); he is not due back in the U. S. until a week after Election Day. Voters everywhere were hearing a great...
Once a highschool teacher, small, grey, solemn Alfred Adams Wheat retains the manner and appearance of a pedagog. Born in New Hampshire of old Yankee stock, he entered the District of Columbia bar in 1891. A Republican, he was appointed by President Hoover in 1929 to the District of Columbia's Supreme Court bench, where he moved up next year to be Chief Justice. From that bench last week he handed President Roosevelt's social program a major set-back by declaring the Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional, granting an injunction against its operation...
...beginning of each college year, the members of the Houses are urged by the House Committee to contribute liberally to the House Fund. Yet with the exception of Lowell House, no committee presents a definite budget to the undergraduates indicating the manner in which the contributions are spent...
...bold adventurers, mellow romance, and plays of a period far removed from our own, an hour's enjoyable entertainment. Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance. Suave, dashing, and clever, he captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunate for the picture, the love interest, supplied by Elissa Landi, is subordinated. Other members of the cast were well selected and aid greatly in presenting a vivid dramatization...
...legend of Faust is brought up to date and dramatized in Marquisian manner. Sample: "Faust: Is not a Good Woman one of the noblest works of God? Mephisto: It is more terrible than that, even: God is one of the subtlest inventions of the Good Woman...