Word: mannerizes
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...adopts an aloof, preoccupied, gentlemanly manner, as suitable to his station, and spends his time reading or writing or pacing thoughtfully up and down his cage, not noticing his visitors. In time, the four policemen may safely be reduced to two, and ultimately to one?public curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon...
...Lydig from her town home, 930 Park Avenue, wishes to deny that the announcement she made on May 26 breaking her engagement to Dr. Grant is in any manner affected by Dr. Grant's resignation from the Church of the Ascension. Furthermore, Mrs. Lydig has no country home and will have nothing further to say on this subject...
...breaking by means of anti-American demonstrations must be prevented. Infringements of law will be strictly punished. We shall do our utmost to prevent rash or violent action, due to public speeches or demonstrations. The exclusion question is too important to be treated rashly. Japanese must behave in a manner in keeping with the dignity of a great nation." ¶ The ban on American films was reported to be breaking down in Tokyo, but it was still being enforced in western Japan...
Sued for divorce. Harold P. ("Brick") Muller, famed 1922 all-American football end, of the University of California, by Bernice Berwin Muller, in Oakland. She charged "a cold, indifferent and supercilious manner...
...ease. She has not even a bowing acquaintance with any standardized, ladylike itinerary. She and her two young sons and one small daughter "strolled" haphazardly through Europe, abiding in the most out-of-the-way, unusual places, and describing it all in the most out-of-the-way, unusual manner. They lived in a delicious, hand-painted medieval monastery, in a starched Swiss boarding house, in a "rummy little hotel in Granada"-and wherever they went, there the spirit of adventure rode high...