Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...condition and the heavy fog, arrives at the wrong house for dinner and is mistaken for a hired guest whom the hostess has ordered from an agency. The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another with a charmingly satirical manner. He used to play in things like this long ago, at the beginning of a career which up to that time had made it seem more likely that he would turn out a public charge than one of the famed Hamlets of his time. His manipulation of seltzer bottles and irresponsible lines...
...Born in Switzerland, Composer Bloch is a U. S. citizen. His last symphonic work, America, is a patriotic outburst in the manner of Walt Whitman (TIME...
...week read a bulletin written by Oswald T. Falk, member of the London house of Buckmaster & Moore. Broker Falk advised all his clients to sell all their British stocks and buy stock of U. S. or colonial enterprises. No sentimentalist, he did not even palliate his statement in the manner of the Stock Exchange Gazette (London) which declared: "Hard times get the best out of individuals and out of nations. . . . The pent-up energies of this nation will not be restrained forever...
...record sights, sounds, smells and other phenomena of the U. S. in a manner pleasing to persons who consider themselves to be apart from the national mass in perception and appreciation, there last week appeared a quarterly titled USA. Its progenitors: "The group centering informally around the Centaur Bookshop ( Philadelphia)." Of the first edition, 2,000 copies were printed, price: $1 the copy. Lead-off article for Vol. 1 No. 1 was by Clifton C. Fadiman, editorial chief of Simon & Schuster (Manhattan publishers), contributor to The Nation. With lofty tolerance, he set about denning the Republic's culture...
...culture were chiefly expressed by means of studied photography -arty shots of ballet dancing; a mechanistic fragment of a Ford factory; "a brilliant and precise camera study of a barbed wire fence post." Also there were essays and stories in the modernist manner...