Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beehives. Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras. Even Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying...
...Johnson, "news is what is in the newspapers; and newspapers are what newspapermen make them. It is a depressing reflection, rather a terrible reflection. But it is true." That this is pessimism there can be no denying. But that it is side-stepping the issue, as it may seem to many, is hardly true. Mr. Johnson has devoted almost a hundred pages to an elaboration of the principle of that dog-bitting man who has been so often slandered in this connection, and one feels with him at the end the futility of any other definition of news than that...
...Britain, and the other was nurtured in the balmy air of far Cathay. When I say the balmy air of far Cathay, I am not certain that balmy elements have not found representation in both cases. Cook is an orator, Chen is a literary man. Both, curiously enough, seem to draw inspiration from the same fount...
...seems to me that what the student needs is not "to see life clearly, and to see it whole", but to see a certain element in life which no end of college training will if unaided fail to give him. i. e. worthwhileness. The only possible cause of suicide for the sane human being is that values have lost their meaning for him. When his mental acuteness is being sharpened in the process of education, he becomes gradually more conscious with his increasing introspective powers, of his own failure to grasp any significance in life which will make it seem...
...less action. But the play catches the very essence of sorrow?the passing of years, the frustration of desire, the ignorance of a paradise of Nirvana. For such a delicate symphony, the gentleness of Beatrice Terry as Prioress and the raspiness of Ruth Wilton as the disciplinary Sister Sagrario seem too strongly accented. Yet the production, as a whole, leaves an impression as beautiful as a faint winter sunset?and as heartbreaking...