Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Culbertson, were nervous. Noises from a party next door came through the wall. Troops of inebriated bridge addicts found the Culbertson door, were prevented from entering by five porters. On the first hand, Mr. Jacoby bid three no-trump, went down one. The play continued in a manner so erratic that even novice bridge addicts detected painful foibles. On the second hand the Culbertson team bid five diamonds, went down four. The fourth hand was generally conceded to be the most preposterous of the match. Mr. Lenz, with an easy chance to make a four no-trump contract...
...presenting many a contemporary French composer. He conducted successfully after that with the Diaghilev Ballet but in Manhattan he made slight impression. The Symphony was in a badly run-down condition. Symphony men, used to calm, benevolent Conductor Damrosch, objected to Golschmann's nervous, high-pitched voice, his worried manner...
...went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian Church and Princeton Theological Seminary; Baritone Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, whose imposing manner and cheery hymns used to be a prime feature of Billy Sunday's revival services; and the Westminster Choir of Ithaca, N. Y. under the able direction of John Finley Williamson...
Tiffany Thayer is audacious; he keeps telling you so, just in case you might forget it. But his strenuous manner is more a form of nervousness than a cloak for really big doings. Publisher Claude Kendall ballyhooed Author Thayer into a bestseller; now he has changed his publisher...
...salient defect in the Department of Comparative Literature is the lack of any full course devoted to the Literature of the Renaissance, as a whole. There are a number of courses which discuss various aspects of the period, but which treat literature in a cursory manner. Several reasons for urging the creation of such a course are apparent...