Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool. The test consists of a quarter of a mile free style, retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving, swimming on the back, using the breast stroke for 100 yards, swimming the side stroke using but one arm for the same distance, and diving in racing manner...
...from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter drew all his best known pictures...
Actress Taylor is very definitely qualified for Barrie work. Her heavy eyelids, fluttering hands and a manner of speaking as though she were slightly awed by the possibility of vocal communication, create about her an atmosphere of wistfulness and unreality. These qualities she puts to good advantage in Alice, the tale of a woman plagued by her children's bungling and over-zealous attentions. The Old Lady, which relates the adoption of a rowdy War hero by a pitiful charwoman, is cut a bit too rough to suit Actress Taylor's style. But many a Taylor and Barrie...
Here for the first time, the brothers in the same picture vie with each other in claiming the attention of the audience. At one moment Lionel may be seen nodding in a satisfied manner, laughing scornfully, and ordering like a master, while in the next is John, who speaks gently, jokes lightly, and compares himself with champagne, "the kind you can drink at any time, even before breakfast...
...Wolf Street "shambles" were being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...