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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the looks of weather reports, they will be well satisfied this year. All signs seem to point to excellent skiing conditions throughout the month of February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiing Conditions Good | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...expresion "If I were you" find one interpretation of the cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations she and her colleagues find themselves in are not infrequently, not invariably funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

After listening to the Glee Club sing several Mozart songs and the Radcliffe Choral Society present some Shubert waltzes, they marched onto the platform, one of their number (whose only tell-tale mark seem to be a well developed mid-riff) stepped out in front an proceeded very capably to direct the group in two Mozart selections and a French carol. "Les Anges dans nos Campagne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIENNA CHOIR BOYS IN SAILOR SUITS SING FOR GLEE CLUB | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...thanks to the series of superficial cinema roles that have enveloped her-how sound an actress Alice Brady is, her warming, plainspoken, broguish portrayal of the Widow O'Leary was a revelation. By long odds the most convincing performer in In Old Chicago, she makes handsome Tyrone Power seem something of a pip-squeak as Chicago's boss, reduces the whole caboodle of headlined stars to the ranks of supporting players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...still in control and the Erie with much less fixed charges." This would seem a singularly hazardous C. & O. gamble, for only last month an ICC examiner reported on an insolvent line (Chicago & Eastern Illinois) in which C. & O. has an $8.000.000 interest. He held that C. & E. I. stock was worthless; the ICC might do the same for Erie in like circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Funny Thing | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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