Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boards that a Society of Fellows be established, composed of brilliant young men, for the purpose of furthering an atmosphere of intellectual contagion. At the present moment there is no doubt that the Graduate School needs to be stimulated intellectually both in a higher degree and in a different manner than formerly which the proposed Society promises to do. But here, as in every department of the University, the dangers of undue emphasis on that which is purely scholastic and intellectually limited must be avoided...
August: The Premier in his character of Worker, Driver, Leader recuperated in the grand manner by taking the cure at Vichy where go so many French...
...adept. Later Beery has an even better chance to make up to Gable. He rescues him from drowning, flies him back to the Saratoga, wrecks the plane and kills himself landing in a fog. Beery and Gable, particularly the former, give likable performances in the oh-yeah manner. Good shot: Gable and Beery coming to blows in a Panama cafe...
...interior decorator; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Santa Maria, Calif. A Harvard graduate and son of Prof. William Gardner Hale, first director of the American Academy in Rome, he decorated many mansions in Europe and the U. S. in true fresco in the early Italian manner, was best known for his murals in Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Manhattan Cloud Club. He also carved totem poles...
...members of any class. Boston with its offers of better and cheaper entertainment rather nullified the purpose of these social gestures. But with the genesis of the House Plan there came also a revival of the social graces. There are now concerts, Christmas parties, tea dances, dinner dances, all manner of recreational opportunities for the young inmates. The Freshmen have been infused with this spirit of gaiety and have arranged several entertainments for themselves which have materially helped them to become better acquainted and better solidified. Whether or not one agrees with the social activity within the Houses, one cannot...