Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While Lawyer Pomerantz did his best to convince the court that the Government had used, then destroyed or concealed data that would prove the whole case was based on inadmissible evidence, his fellow counsel, noisy little Archie Palmer, bounced around the courtroom in his familiar court jester's manner. "I don't know whether your unorthodox tactics are the result of contemptuous buffoonery or personal eccentricity," the judge finally exploded at one point, "but I want them stopped...
...Bestseller. Concentrating on 570 of the most common words, Lorge found that the simplest ones usually have the largest number of meanings. A word like open, for instance, can mean uncovered (open boat), not closed (open door), unrestricted (open to use), forthright (open in manner), or not frozen (open soil). Even little by has 41 meanings...
TIME is not like the Literary Digest and is in no way modeled after it. The Literary Digest treats at great length with a few subjects selected more or less arbitrarily from week to week. TIME gives all the week's news in a brief, organized manner. The Digest makes its statements through its time-honored formula of editorial excerpts. TIME simply states. The Digest, in giving both sides of a question, gives little or no hint as to which side it considers to be right. TIME gives both sides, but clearly indicates which side it believes to have...
Producer-on-wheels Margaret Webster, back in Manhattan temporarily after carrying Shakespeare to the hinterlands, declared that she "felt free" only when she was away from New York. Most of her non-Broadway audiences had never seen a professional play before and "they approach a play in the same manner they would a football match. If they enjoy it they stamp and whistle wildly at the end . . . They eat everything, gum, popcorn, crispies. We know the show's been a success by the size of the pile of candy wrappers left behind...