Word: manneredness
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A friendly, mild-mannered pedagog. Historian Muzzey nonetheless stood his ground. He quoted Fite's History of the U. S. and Greene's Foundations of American Nationality which call Oglethorpe's colonists "the King's poverty-stricken subjects." and "poor but honest debtors." Said he: "I...
When a publisher finds himself with that rare phenomenon, an instantly successful new magazine, whatever its type, he must expect a quick upcropping of imitations. The popularity of gentle-mannered Golden Book attracted four imitators.* At the other end of the scale of politeness, rough-&-tumble Ballyhoo last week had...
The Author. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and...
ALL PASSION SPENT-V. Sackville-West -Doubleday Doran ($2.50).* Lady Slane has just been widowed: her husband, onetime Prime Minister of England, Viceroy of India, has left her little money, much prestige, six aging children whom she hardly knows and does not care for very much. Her children have an...
Of all personages who were to attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before...