Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fantasy, but one of those which seem...
...honor to print my letter of May 23, but again you indulged in your proclivity for footnotes, and when it comes to "foot" notes you seem to have a penchant for putting your foot...
While so many of your readers seem to be writing detractions of your red-bordered cover [TIME, Jan. 31, Feb. 14, April 18. May 2, 9, and June 13], I wish to offer a constructive suggestion. Your cover is already red and white, so why not print the word TIME in blue? Then change your subhead from "The Weekly Newsmagazine" to "The National Weekly" (this also in blue...
...display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein a few years ago, but "the seed apparently has fallen on barren ground...
...Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies make him a handy quicksilver tongue in the thermometer...