Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second factor is Miss Sears' manner of expressing herself. Choosing excerpts from a book is a vicious practice, but one example will illustrate this point unfortunately well and will serve as an all too fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece...
...expulsions that followed these anti-war and anti-R.O.T.C. activities make manifest to us the calculative manner in which authorities in our leading universities are trying to smash the student anti-war movement. We are convinced that student protests such as these are commendable, and we therefore wish to go on record as demanding the immediate reinstatement of these expelled students. Further, we feel that the R.O.T.C. should be abolished in all institutions, and the funds that have been utilized for its maintenance should be diverted to the building and furtherance of free schools and colleges. (signed...
...SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE- George D. Lyman - Scribner ($3.50). Written in a tiresomely slapdash manner, but a mine of information about the bonanza days at Virginia City...
Each man gives five major speeches and several shorter ones. Basing their judgment on these speeches, the instructors criticize each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner", and the content and organization of his speech. Many a student learns for the first time that he talks too fast or that when on the rostrum he contorts his body to such a degree that his audience becomes quite dizzy in trying to follow both his actions and his speech...
Three lectures each week account for all the material which must be assimilated in order to pass the examinations. When the subject being discussed lends itself toward especial interest, Professor Mather disports himself before his 200-odd students in a manner which few can hope to imitate, much less surpass. When the subject matter occasionally turns boresome, the lecturer does his best to put spice into the presentation; but this often proves absolutely futile...