Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys, and were aching for a chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
Certainly there are Hamlets and Hamlets and manifold methods of interpretation. Some fit the part, others do not. Mr. Leiber is one who is particularly suited to it. It does not seem, certainly, in his case that anything is lest by foregoing most opportunities for extreme grandiloquence. To those who care more for their Shakespeare than for the accomplishments of the actor and who appreciate the force of judicious simplicity, Fritz Leiber is certain to appeal strongly...
...liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily discredited even when disproved. It would seem likely that by now Col. Lindbergh will have more difficulty in demoting "We" from its false pedestal than he had in placing it there last spring...
...Nathan, and H. L. Mencken are in approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than that occasioned by Colonel Roosevelt's recent tirade against Governor Smith...
...take a back seat, and "Isobel" has captivated her audience as well as her engineer in a case of "love at first toot." But while Conklin and Bancroft are not always funny, they are always fast in a brand new comedy background, namely the railroad field which seems to have infinite possibilities, especially when this pair are out to make a run. Indeed, these two comedians seem to be out to undo the jinx that makes so many slapstick favorites of the footlights flops of the Kleig lights. They spare neither themselves nor each other in making "Tell...