Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat, is given to patting people on the back. Meeting J. P. Morgan at a recent Commencement...
...muckraking expedition will Lord MacMillan conduct. Last week in Vancouver, when raucous Barrister McGeer implied that the Commission was being paid to entrench the established banking system in Canada, the Scots Lord dropped his tactful manner, declared it "a monstrous suggestion." (The Commission gets no pay, only expenses.) Chief problem before the Commission is whether to recommend establishment of a central bank in Canada. "Nationalization of credit" and other radical experiments are not likely to appeal to its economically cautious members...
Divorced. William Powell, cinemactor; by his second wife, Carole Lombard Powell, cinemactress; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty ("a very emotional man, cruel and cross in manner of language...
...Better say 90," cautioned Engineer Gilbertson. "This is for the newspapers." Said Stoker Jackson: "Make it 90. We do more, you see, making up lost time some days, but if folks in England knew we did it might put them off, in a manner of speaking...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...