Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Confused but compelling history of a man who bought another's personality for gold. LULU BELLE-Heady adventures among the Negro night clubs in Manhattan. Principally Lenore Ulric. CRAIG'S WIFE-A carefully cut image of a woman whose home meant more to her than her husband. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire nearing the end of her run in the witty tale of thievery among the British peerage. AT MRS. BEAM'S-The horrible...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
From the context of both articles it is apparent that both are intended to cover one and the same quotation. I am curious to know whether Mr. Chu said "anti-British" or "anti-foreign." Under the circumstances of the entire affair, TIME'S quotation would seem more logical. Mr. Chu has more or less anti-European prejudice but has never indicated any such prejudice against America...
South Africa puzzles U. S. business men. I met a fellow who was genuinely surprised to find that I was not colored. Others were dumbfounded to hear that the Boers were quite civilized, that I was a typical Boer. Most people seem to think that lions and tigers are shot as easily in Capetown as cashiers and jewelers in New York.-Eric H. Louw, Commissioner for the Government of the Union of South Africa...
...play with a passage of sex double entente that made Jurgen seem stuff for babes. (Pomeroy's Past...