Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second in line for the Spanish Throne is Don Jaime, 19, a thickset, powerfully athletic youth, but congenitally deaf and mute. He now "hears" by "lip reading,"' and has been taught to make intelligible sounds; but Spaniards scarcely deem him fit to be their King...
...Franklin Alter Jr. and myself [Mr. Alter] would be more than delighted to have you and Mrs. Davis as our house guests during the period that you are in Cincinnati. We would deem it a high honor to house such distinguished and popular people. You, with your magnetic personality and brilliant attainments, your devoted wife with her charm of manner and her most beautiful personality, which has endeared herself to all with whom she has come in contact, and making her society irresistible. . . . We have a very attractive and beautiful home, the house being surrounded by beautiful grounds, artistically laid...
Both observers deem the Soviet State scrupulous in fulfilling the letter of its agreements, and yet inclined to adopt what Miss Thompson calls "a rather Machiavellian attitude," when it proves possible to mulct or ruin a foreign capitalist while still keeping within the limits of his concession agreement...
...hurried marriage ceremony before the outfit sailed for France, she put her slim young legs into a soldier's uniform, but forgot the belt. When the pants slipped, the audience squealed. Doughboys may have shooting pains when they see the army scenes, but picture patrons will deem eye-worthy this implausible, happy comedy with Laura La Plante, pretty, funny, spontaneous as a sneeze...
Most significant and worth re-reading are the above sentences, when it is remembered that historians generally deem M. Poincaré an authentic pre-War apostle of revanche. By his own statement of last week he welcomed the War, once it had been begun, with an holy joy. Enemies are not lacking to charge that, as President of France (1913-1920), M. Poincaré schemed with Russia to precipitate...