Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...
Perhaps there seem to drum in imagination's ear those feverish midnight hoofbeats which so often heralded (in winter or summer, snow or clear) the approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women...
Strange Fish. William Beebe, one of those fortunate men who seem to be doing exactly what their spirits desire, returned to Manhattan last week from a four-month fishing and observing expedition on the coral reefs of Haiti. In the scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate...
There are seven sermons and a prayer, all of a powerful simplicity. But one sermon stands by itself, making the rambling accounts of Creation and the Fall and the Flood seem almost conversational. It is a funeral sermon, and one of the really great poems of U. S. literature. It tells how God, one morning, had a tall, bright angel cry out like a clap of thunder...
...three notable occurrences in the football world of the past two days. Harvard's action in dropping Brown for the 1928 season, Yale's non-scouting agreement with rival colleges, and the unanimous consent of ten colleges to allow a central arbiter to select officials for major contests all seem to imply that college sports relations are about to undergo a further, and more radical, change...