Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest President Coolidge's statement be made to seem a pet of political temperament, Impresario Butler closed his lips tight, pocketed his incompleted jottings, left the Northwest. But before going to Canada for a vacation, he did say that Calvin Coolidge was not to be thought of as definitely unavailable for the Prosperities of 1928. During Mr. Butler's vacation, President Coolidge repeatedly if silently insisted on his unavailability, finishing up last week with the almost crabbed words: "It is final." Mr. Butler, heading for Washington last week, obviously had a lot of new plans to make...
...charge of his chairmanship. If the Republican elephant is to jump the fence, there must be moneys. So well is this known now by good Republicans that the financial duties of the National Treasurer have become almost automatic. All Mr. Butler has to do is indicate the amounts that seem necessary and his committeemen do the asking-papa part...
...Book, like most modern biography, wears the gallant armour of fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire...
...wishes to lay down at the very beginning his plan of campaign, the key, so to speak, to his cultural museum. In the first place he intends to give especial comment only to those examples of intellectual interest which in his judgement-subject though it may be to err-seem to warrant such notice. Moreover, going on the principle that it is well to lay up good things for the future, he intends to list his specimens not only on the day in which they shine in all their glory, but in addition, on the day before, so that...
...with my hands and feet, and she'd split for sure. Then after the show when the spot man was down backstage, he came around and said. Hey Jack did you hear that woman upstairs? 'Oh yes' I said, kinds modest, you know, because I didn't want to seem stuck-up over my line. "Well you know what it was about don't you?" 'No, what was it? I asked, looking modestly credulous...