Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no one in America or in Europe," wrote the former Ambassador Bryce in a tribute to Professor Norton on the same occasion, "whom those who know what he has done and who have been privileged to enjoy his friendships will deem more worthy of a tribute of affectionate respect such as that which you are now paying to this reverend patriarch of American letters...
Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers...
...Rome, the Osservatore Romano, official loudspeaker for the Vatican, printed extracts from Cardinal Maffi's letter; no other newspaper dared follow suit for fear of suppression. But the Osservatore Romano, in its turn, did not deem it politic to ignore the sage words of one of the mightiest Princes of the Church...
Miss Betty Deem of Reading has gone the Chinese one better. Their philosophy bids them pay their doctors only so long as they remain healthy. Miss Deem has conceived of the novel idea of appointing her pall-bearers while she still lives, and, moreover, of entertaining them...
...grisly evening it must have been when Miss Deem and her six future pall-bearers sat around the festive board at her home! Reports have it that she is perfectly healthy, at least in body. It must be a perverted sense of humor that enjoyed the company of her ominous guests...