Word: manneredness
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Said one girl with a happy smile: "There are no ill mannered-men in the [switchboard] room to annoy us. It is only the electricians or the mechanics who come into the room once in a while, but they are all nice men."
To his evident embarrassment, a young negro in a white bag wig a trifle too large for him and black satin knee breeches a trifle too small stood on the main staircase of the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, while 2,000 people snatched programs from his hand and...
Modernists, behaviorists, say that "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter...
Recently profaned in the usual way, the Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated...
A FAREWELL TO ARMS-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($2.50). This story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, U. S. ambulance officer on the Italian Front, of his campaigns and leaves of absence, of the swarming Caparetto retreat, of the Lieutenant's affair with Catharine Barkley, an English nurse who died in childbirth...