Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never was his rhetoric more abusive, his manner more forceful. Appealing to what he called the Mass Mind he poured out the vials of his political scorn on President Hoover and all G. O. Policies. Resounding popular demonstrations greeted him everywhere. Even in Washington the House Ways & Means Committee gave him its respectful attention while he flayed the present currency system. The citizens of Charlotte, N. C. shrieked with ignorant delight when he cracked an obsolete joke which the audience thought was an original Alfalfaism.* The South Carolina General Assembly listened in rapt attention while he outlined the economic...
...flags and noises of cities through which the Shanghai express passes are thoroughly realistic, the villainies of Mr. Chang and even the curiously elaborate speeches written for Clive Brook seem real also. Miss Dietrich's legs are not so evident as usual and she acts well in the manner of a less stoic Garbo. The wars to which the picture alludes are the civil disturbances which raged in China early last year; but, alert to the advantages of the Sino-Japanese conflict, Paramount last week urged exhibitors to believe that "every newspaper in the world is a pressbook...
...built with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a truly oriental manner, with lavish furnishings and chromium-plated fixtures...
Firstly the Royal Commission scored Lord Strickland's quarrels with the Maltese clergy as based originally on "trivial grounds." Secondly the Premier was stated to have used his powers of office as "a dominating and aggressive force, with a manner calculated to cause irritation and annoyance." Finally the Royal Commission said that Lord Strickland had committed an act almost smacking of treason to the Realm. Sent by his King-Emperor to guide and govern an excitable Latin race "extremely loyal to Great Britain" (according to the Royal Commission) he instead divided the Maltese "into very embittered cliques" and deliberately...
...hindrances to doing individual and original work. The new changes have a decidedly liberalizing effect; they emphasize the growing trend at Harvard which places a premium not on the mere storing of facts but on the marshalling of facts in a logical order and treating them in a critical manner...