Word: manneredness
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As the years passed, "this boy" was to prove that being a good chemist was not necessarily a handicap for a Harvard president. James Bryant Conant was soon just as much at home presiding over the Harvard Corporation as he had ever been puttering about his laboratory. A mild-mannered...
¶ For gallerygoers interested in contemporary art, the exhibit to see was the show from modern India at the Smithsonian. The catalogue lists nothing earlier than 1900, warns that "those who expect to meet only a pleasant exoticism are bound to be disappointed." To show how India's artists...
Teacher Pund did not appear to be the sort who would go in for kissing games. A graduate of the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, he was a mild-mannered man of 40, who claimed to have once been ordained a minister. Nevertheless, Fund obviously had his theories. "A...
Pieces of Ivory. The book was a critical success. It was a mannered, exotic tale about a circle of aristocrats "so powerful and exclusive that . . . Romans refer to them with bated breath." ("Tell Mr. Wilder," said one of the high-born ladies with some amusement, "that we are not really...
One morning last October a mild-mannered, grey-haired little woman walked into the California Bank on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, quietly approached a teller's window, and laid a note on the counter. This done, she raised a paper bag in which she seemed to be holding...