Word: manneredness
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Never was a song more cruelly abused. Yet many realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and...
Publisher Bowles, who inherited his publishing province from three successive Samuel Bowleses (TIME, Oct. 15), had long been quarreling with the local typographical union.* A wage-&-hours dispute had been settled only a month when last week Mr. Bowles turned up a new fight. He ordered one of his crack...
Grey-eyed, Brindle Gangster had already won three Australian championships before he was imported in 1932 by John Pesek, heavyweight wrestler of Ravenna, Neb. Since then he has won the Waterloo twice. Calm and well-mannered in the paddock, he has unsurpassed speed in the field, turns quickly, keeps his...
Only an average-length novel (255 pp.), He Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose...
Tall, mild-mannered Keith Brown, who hopes to clear 14 ft. 6 in. before he graduates next June, is the latest addition to an extraordinary line of Yale pole-vaulters who, starting with Thomas Shearman in 1888, have since won the intercollegiate championship 20 times. Recent Yale pole-vaulters, like...