Word: mannerizes
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...members of the House in a calm voice, then returned to the Imperial Palace under heavy guard. No one present at the reading of the address knew of the shooting, but after the Prince had departed and the news became known, all expressed their highest admiration for the manner in which he had conducted himself...
...Frank Harris ? Brentano ($2.50). Frank Harris has known practically everyone of any prominence. Of all the people he knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately...
...latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent to the general approbation of the acting of Charles Ray. For his sake and for the undoubted historical value of the picture, it must be labeled worthy of consideration and approval...
...unclouded by prejudice, he is quick, observant, interested and interesting. His style is rather anecdotal than analytic, rather active than beautiful. Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen and looked at with freshness and originality. The book as a whole gives a very complete...
...Grace the Duke of Sutherland, who accompanied Fokker, said he had come "to study the manner in which the United States had undertaken the development of flying by establishing personal contact with the Government air service and the industry through the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce...