Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty-six Jews were butchered at Hebron. The Arab prosecutor did not seem to want to probe into that. To simple peasant witnesses he addressed questions remarkably prolix and abstruse, double questions, contradictory questions. Even so the witnesses managed to testify that they had seen Sheik Taleb Maraka publicly inciting Arabs to massacre, shouting that the faithful could settle any debts they might owe to Jews by slaughtering their creditors. One witness who thus testified was Superintendent Cafferata of the local British Police. When the Arab prosecutor sought to question Mr. Cafferata only on irrelevant topics, Mr. Justices Corrie...
...been climbing the surrounding fence in rather concentrated doses. With a respectable amount of indifference, the Athletic Association has reserved a group of small, wire pens for the convenience and residence of these unexpected guests as long as they choose to remain on the field. The inmates do not seem to be more than ordinarily annoyed, and the space serves no other purpose at that specific time. The only difficulty seems to be with the legitimate spectators...
That prognosis angered the operators. Cried one: "Mr. Brown does not seem to realize that, although it is true that transportation has always followed migration, which in this country has always been from east to west, the airplane is now opening up trade routes north and south. . . . The Post Office Department has never operated at a profit. Why should aviation transportation be discriminated against-reducing an inevitable deficit?" The fact that Mr. Brown's Toledo law firm, Brown, Hahn & Sanger, has represented certain railroads, made some of the airmen suspect, in their bitterness, that Mr. Brown was consciously...
...American girls seem much the same as British girls except that they wear their clothes at different angles...
...Kept Woman Authoress Delmar again looks at Bronx domesticity, makes the colloquial-trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances...