Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale debate was scheduled to take place in Jordan Hall, but the widespread interest in the campaign, and the success of the Harvard-Boston University debate held last spring on the same subject have made it seem advisable to hold the debate this fall in either Symphony Hall or the Boston Opera House...
...paper subsequently to be handed to the dean. Yet this is the current quotation of the penalty attendant on this indiscretion, and rises of from five hundred to several thousand points are to be be looked for if the Freshmen capture the sense of humor which their proctors seem to have lost. With this report in mind it is not surprising to learn that the proctors of Smith Hall have decided that at least one of their number must be constantly on hand to quell any disturbance which may arise within the quadrangle. Nor is it astonishing to hear that...
...mere chirographic methods fail to be sufficiently drastic, the institution of a demerit system would seem in accordance with the plan thus far so nobly advanced. Boys with a hundred demerits would not be allowed to sing in the Jubilee, or worse still, would not be allowed to bring the girl who wrote that mushy daily letter. Any boys naughty enough to have two hundred demerits in the bug head proctors book would have to stand with a committee of proctors all the time the class picture was being taken and never have, the fun of throwing eggs...
...German people" seem to include only those who are ready to enter with von Ludendorff into the "German religion" which he described as one founded upon the worship of Wotan and other ancient "strong" Teuton gods...
...interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces of law and decency seem allied with the dreadful spouse; even the bond-broker's son helps...