Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...crew of the 513 comes back from shore leave, goes to sea. The 513 is sunk. They have enough air to live about five hours. At first their imminent fate is merely an unthinkable horror, remote and impersonal: it becomes human and tragic because, as time passes, in the manner in which each man faces or avoids the thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command, a little fellow just out of Annapolis, with a pathetic courage and a dormitory sense of duty...
...mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner of his end. Footsteps, chess, English voices, higher mathematics, and the Church are used to create suspense, successfully keep your interest, and Basil Rathbone, as Vance, is pleasantly similar to William Powell, who has played the role in other pictures. Best shot: Philo Vance explaining his startling powers of deduction...
Last week another company received resuscitation in this manner. Eitingon Schild Co., Inc. is the world's largest fur organization, has usually reaped big profits from pelt operations extending around the world. Last fall, however, when stocks crashed the fur market had its most violent decline in history, average drops ranging from 30% to 50%. The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher. The cheap but U. S. favored raccoon temporarily maintained prices because of seasonal demand. Eitingon Schild's inventories had to be written...
Upon the inception of its "Candid Camera" page, the Graphic smugly commented: "Week by week important functions of the Season will be pictorially chronicled by the Graphic in a new and original manner. Our photographer's victims will not know they are being taken. The naturalness of these unique photographs can be judged from this week's 'Unsuspected Moments...
...male Circe, Author James Joyce transforms upstanding, understood words into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest book cannot be read, it. must be puzzled over. In his famed Ulysses, this Jabberwocky manner cropped out only in occasional shoals and semi-submerged reefs; most of it was plain sailing. But Ulysses, describing the events of one Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down...