Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carroll no longer heeds the jingling of the guinea but merely contemplates reform. If he plans the replacement of the traditional shower by the more famous bath-tub, he is doomed to disappointment; champagne instead of water perhaps, but tubs instead of showers,--never. A possible novelty would seem to be the production of an athletic show in which the heroine did not invade the locker room in order to embrace the all-American fullback. Here is something worth considering, but it is to be feared that the author of so many Vanities will never neglect a good dressing room...
GREAT BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable...
...course, I got back from Europe only two days ago, so that I don't know a lot about them, but they do not seem to me to be on the job. They should have canvassed every professor in the University, and got him to say for whom he was voting, and what his reasons were for supporting that candidate. Then the Republican Club, for instance, would have done something worth while both towards promoting Hoover, and towards strengthening the prestige of the club...
...This is the most interesting and exciting campaign I can remember since the Tilden-Hayes campaign of '76. And yet the students as a whole do not seem to take much active interest When we were in college, everybody discussed politics all the time. Every-one ate in Memorial Hall then, and we had some pretty lively times. Politics was the one thing which was dominant throughout the campaign, and up to a few days before inauguration, when election was finally settled...
...coins. The Harvard theory of civilization and culture contrasts greatly with the West Point theory of civilization and development. Each produces results in its territory. West Point has a single purpose, to produce the highest type of soldiers for the country in time of war. And these West Pointers seem to glow in the spirit of militant service of their country...