Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Edward Russell, well known New York writer and lecturer, has been the first to come forward to the side of Mayor Thompson from the ranks of those who may be loosely called the intellectuals. In a world that seemed alive with nothing but stinging editorials the mayor has found a man with a vocabulary, a sonorous voice and it would seem, ideas...
...Maugham has written an entertaining comedy, which presents some rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for the "gout americain." Miss Barrymore is pleasing to the eye and gives an exceedingly finished performance. Miss Verree Teasdale takes the part of Marie Louise, the attractive but inconstant wife and fills the bill admirably. Mr. Aubrey Smith's performance as John, the prominent and unfaithful Harley Street surgeon, was uniformly...
...appearance of a lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America as part of the program in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's birth may seem unusual to those who are not familiar with Professor Norton's great services to the cause of archaeology. In 1879, soon after he had been appointed as a teacher at Harvard; Professor Norton sent out invitations to a group of friends, suggesting the establishment of the Archaeological Institute of America...
...sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those who had the happiness of intimacy with him, his learning and all that he accomplished seem but as secondary and accessory to the essential qualities of his character and his manner of life. He made a friend of every student who sought him for advice or direction, and gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...