Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a vast difference in slowly torturing animals to death and killing them instantaneously. For one who is snow-bound in the mountains of Montana-Earl doesn't seem to get the drift. VIVIAN HOWIE Norristown...
Bosses to Work! Lest he seem a destructive critic, Edward of Wales proceeded to tell the flabbergasted Tycoons, last week, exactly how to sell more goods. Broaching this advice modestly enough, he confessed with a smile: "I've never tried to sell anybody anything in my life, except a few horses...
...conquest of all China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...
...done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make excellent accompaniment for a Griffith cinema with its bells and serenades and saltarellos, but Toscanini made it seem important for itself, almost a worthy companion to Debussy's Iberia, which followed; and to the Tannhauser overture which, for once, said all that Wagner intended...
...without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it?quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope and gore for the sake of the Maharanee of Dahlcurrie's necklace; is nevertheless pleasantly credible...