Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the U. S. the Pennsylvania Dutch are material for funny-dialect anecdotes, but Author Williamson has skilfully fitted them into his melodramatic formula. In his story, a neat blend of hexerei, psittacosis and the primal appetites, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect throws into ironic relief an increasingly sinister plot. Herman Bauer, good farmer and good husband, coveted his neighbor's land. But if Neighbor Erdman had not come down with parrot fever, which looked like hexerei, if Herman had not found his mother's little hexing book, he might not have gone on to covet Erdman...
...course History 1 does not make them think, but remember how few of them can think," was his reaction to a neat little paragraph in the Guide which regretted the lack of original thinking required--or even desired--in the course, "I received a forty-page letter from Paul Cram which said precisely the same thing in the midst of telling me all the things wrong with the course--very sound...
Ousted by the State Supreme Court from the Governorship because of his conviction, Mr. Langer found that his opponents were going to court to have him debarred as a "convict," from the ballot in November. Ten years ago Texas gave the country a neat political trick whereby such legal difficulties could be sidestepped and the Governorship kept in the family. First to use it was James Ferguson who, following his impeachment and removal from office, put up his wife Miriam ("Ma") in his stead. Last week Mr. Langer decided to follow this pattern when he resigned his nomination...
...arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives a tightness of effect that is sometimes disconcerting. You feel that life does not dovetail into its various parts with such neatness. ... It is certain that sometimes it gives you a sensation of airlessness. . . ." Many a reader or re-reader of these tales will find them good stories, well told, interesting, definite, neat and?competent...
...wingspan of 6 ft. 1 in., a fuel capacity of 13 oz., a tiny one-cylinder Brown engine. Followed by a full-sized plane from take-off to landing she climbed 8,000 ft., glided 10 mi. in descending circles after her fuel gave out, made a neat three-point landing in a cow-pasture. Built by Maxwell Bassett, 19, of Philadelphia, winner of the Admiral Moffett and Texaco Trophies for gasoline-powered model planes, Miss Philadelphia IV will have her record certified by the National Aeronautic Association which observed her flight...