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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they are healthy, it is merely because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...recounted his Sindbadic journey. Between Croyden, which he had left three weeks ago without fuss, flurry or publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Croyden to Bundaberg | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...brought to trial at Athens, awed spectators saw that his sleek dark hair has turned a tousled white. Wearing an old civilian suit and keeping his head bent, General Pangalos asked for a few days more in which to prepare his case. The days were granted, but his chances seem slim to escape death for High Treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Turned White | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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