Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...other hand it may be asked which of the persons charged with an offense gives evidence in the coolest and most self-possessed manner. My answer, gentlemen, is that it is the person charged with murder. I recall but few persons so charged who have not given their testimony in a quiet, confident, almost dispassionate...
...Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake if I had to blame anyone...
...your issue of Nov. 24, p. 63 you state the manner in which you would have reported the eventful Jefferson Birthday Dinner of April...
...Prime mover of the Grasslands project was Joseph Brown ("Joe") Thomas, 51, a hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness and even earned him requests not to ride out with other gentlemen and their ladies. But his friends like him as warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized...
...Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes on his character have been overawed by his splendor. In all American history there has been no statesman who, in manner and bearing, appeared so noble." Of good New England stock (his father fought in the Continental Army), Daniel Webster was born (1782) in Franklin, N. H., died 70 years later on his Massachusetts farm. Between those dates he had been lawyer, Congressman (from New Hampshire, from Massachusetts). Senator (from Massachusetts), twice...