Word: mannerizes
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...British Ambassador who wrote sympathetically, kindly, energetically, efficiently and in the Julian manner...
...woman finds herself in a position to decide the fate of her lost lover's mistress, who has forgotten herself so far as to shoot the lover. Inasmuch as the jurywoman herself has, in the prologue, attempted unsuccessfully to eradicate the identical individual in much the same manner she finds herself, as the saying goes, in a dilemma. Her solution involves the detonation of a vast amount of emotional cordite...
...place where the King's Champion used to ride in on a charger and challenge to mortal combat anyone who questioned the right of the King to the Crown; where for many years Coronation Banquets were held, King George V said that " Westminster Hall appealed in a special manner to the mind and manner of the whole English-speaking race. For centuries it had witnessed the growth of the Constitution and had been, as it were, a link between the Crown and the people...
...have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content?one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent popular and unindicted successes that far surpass it in "frankness"?it has no cheap tricks...
...futility of funny men, the Scholar drags himself to Broadway to inspect the latest models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...