Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi. Prophets foresaw a Menuhin-Ricci dispute which would stir...
...lives been struck by the charm of textiles and pottery made either before the development of the factory system, with its, standardized mechanical processes, or, recently, in more or less remote country districts by people working by hand with simple tools in natural materials in a traditional manner. We know that this charm is due in part to traditional form, for no form or pattern can become traditional unless it is pleasing and well adapted for use: yet another and no less significant reason why these objects are beautiful is that, in consequence of their possessing the quality and liveliness...
...Buehler's plan contemplates that the model be constructed preferably on an island in Lake Michigan in such a manner as to have the coast lines of the United States represented by the edges of the island...
Brusque, blunt, subtle in spite of his manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...
...Talmadge girls did their first work. It is Dumas' story of how Edmund Kean insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting out the exotic and flexible tones which have made his reputation on the Continent, but even audiences who know German well will have trouble understanding him, so badly timed is the recording. At the Manhattan premiere of this picture the lounge of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse was fixed up like...