Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing again under his chairmanship. The mystery was how Al Wiggin persuaded France's delegate, hollow-eyed, white-haired Emile Moreau, to sign the report without public protest. It is definitely known that while the report was being prepared Banker Moreau banged the table in his best French manner and swore that he would return to Paris immediately if the question of Reparations was brought up. Yet the spidery signature of Banker Moreau appeared in its due place on the bottom of the report when it was signed. Back in Paris, Banker Moreau was called immediately to confer with...
Daughter of the Dragon (Paramount) shows the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland) far less insidious than he seemed in the stories of Sax Rohmer, engaged in homicide on an ambitious scale but in a manner too placid to be awful. Brought to his deathbed early in the picture, he charges his daughter (Anna May Wong) to continue his program of extermination. This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does...
...Yorker as of an imitation of a college funnypaper imitating The New Yorker. But the magazine improved with age, reported the local drama, sport, social goings-on with a ton which was cheerful if derivative. It also carried little comic stories by Chicago writers, jokes illustrated in the manner of Peter Arno. Suddenly and surprisingly last week, those Chicagoans who buy the magazine found a new kind of Chicagoan on their newsstands. This time Publisher Quigley had Vanity Fair in the back of his mind. Henceforth The Chicagoan (circulation: 23,000), enlarged to the page-size of The Spur, will...
...John Van Alstyn Weaver (In American) and the magazine's editor, wrote about soap models. C. J. Bulliet, theatre critic and art editor of the Evening Post, gave an elementary lecture on modern art. There were two pages in four colors, several pages of photographs in the modern manner, eight pages of illustrations in blue ink. All was put together with a finish and flair worthy of a national publication, to make a magazine worthy of bigger & better Chicago...
...fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...