Word: manneredness
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¶ Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby and later fourth Duke of Rutland, grew up to be described as "an amiable and extravagant peer, without any particular talent except for conviviality." He did have sense enough to protest the policy of taxing the American Colonies in 1775, observing that it was...
According to Green, he and his partners had done nothing outside the law. He was shocked when North Carolina's mild-mannered Congressman Herbert Bonner pointed out a flaw in Green's operations: he had failed to pay a 5% excise tax in his multimillion-dollar operation. The...
Died. Ralph Forbes, 45, mannered actor of the old school, who came to the U.S. from his native London in 1924, stayed on to appear in more than 60 roles on Broadway (Hedda Gabler) and Hollywood (Frenchman's Creek); ex-husband of Actresses Ruth Chatterton and Heather Angel; of...
The Kill. Inside the plane's plastic nose (transparent to radar) is a metal "dish" antenna that spins rapidly on its axis and at the same time swings with an odd back & forth motion. In doing this mannered dance, it probes the air ahead with far-reaching radar pulses...
Ruskin was sharp eyed, enthusiastic and 21 when he first met Turner. He hurried home and wrote in his diary: "Introduced today to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge . . . I found...