Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanded silence. ... A wrist watch might have been heard to tick. . . . Grasping the laurel with one hand and the roses with the other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with a formal speech but by shouting: "Long live Mussolini today! Long live Mussolini always...
...undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...However, there is a place for all forms of activity in the world and even though our work in the field of aviation may seem somewhat elementary, we may be certain that it will not be valueless. As it now seems, we have succeeded in producting dirigibles that are durable, practicable, and economical...
...hearty approval of the editorial in yesterday's CRIMSON on the recent action of the Law School authorities. We feel that you have voiced the sentiments of the great majority of those in the School. The steps which have just been taken and the attitude which they represent, seem to as opposed alike to the traditions of the University, the requirements of the situation, and the nature of graduate and professional training. It is very much to be hoped that last week's action does not mark a permanent change in what has been regarded as the settled policy...
...Polemics seem the only answer for such a book, especially when Professor Barnes of Smith can label it as "trenchant, timely, and courageous." But, after all, it seems sufficient to warn its readers that here is presented only one side of an international question with very grave omissions of fact, that no valid judgment on the Great War will be pronounced until another generation, and finally that much of Mr. Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear...