Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before he could reach Paris, Mr. Kellogg had to go to Havre. He stood on the deck, last week, as the ship slipped into the narrow harbor. From where he stood, he could see, at the right, the houses of Havre which seem flat like the backdrop of a theatre. He could also see, to the East, the sun. He could not see an object upon which the sun's rays were playing...
...great men whom he has biographed. Since Lord Birkenhead was famed as Mr. "F. E." Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these two books, which seem the product of a brain almost, if not quite as keen, as his: "the keenest legal brain in England...
...Shuberts, too, seem anxious to bring culture to the musical stage. Their first offering is to be White Lilacs, an operetta based on the life of Chopin and accompanied by arrangements of his melodies. It is interesting to observe that Broadway's most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that...
...will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...
...standing of Tilden would seem to be: he is out of tennis, knows it; he may seek reinstatement, but an application for reinstatement would be taken by many to be merely a gesture which would give the U. S. L. T. A. the choice of reversing its stand or of remaining adamant, thus making Tilden appear a martyr. Yet it is unlikely that Tilden cares either way: there are thousands to be made in professional tennis, not a little to be made in exploiting his reputation. Thus, without honor, passes the man who for six years dominated world tennis...