Word: manneredness
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He said of himself while in America: "I'm not a literary man." Strangely enough, James Huneker got the same impression of him: "a man of the world, neither sailor nor novelist, just a simple-mannered gentleman whose welcome was sincere, whose glance was slightly veiled, far away at times...
The oldest tradition of the East is hospitality, the next oldest cour- tesy. Ignoring all ill-mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings over the immigration dispute, the Imperial household of Japan restored the balance of Nippo-American amenities by presenting the American colony of Toyko, rent free, with a valuable...
Ill-mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings. (P. 11.)
There was also a piece called The Evolution of Dixie, which fooled around with that stirring tune, but never actually played it through-and there was John Alden Carpenter's Krazy Kat ballet, an evocation in mild-mannered jazz of Herriman's immortal comic animals. This last composition...
A better kind of phosphorus for matches is the red variety, which is used on the box in making safety matches, and catches fire if you rub it hard enough with the powdered glass and active chemicals in the head of the match. This is a mild-mannered, quiet sort...