Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value as an advertising medium in this organization, it was with great dismay that I read the singularly inept reference to Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation which appeared in the Sept. 9 issue under the heading of "Aeronautics." . . . Were your correspondents as adept at gathering facts as they seem to be at ferreting out middle names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative in the aircraft manu facturing field one such strong, well-financed, well-managed concern than a score...
...silly thing done by otherwise intelligent and progressive people: Granted that it is a foolish, though traditional, ceremony . . . what price a Britisher pushing a peanut up Ben Nevis with his nose as has been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late...
...first sight it might seem that Mr. Waggoner had made an empty gesture, that so soon as the fraud was discovered the $500,000 would be returned. Unfortunately, however, no such simple solution appeared likely. For, fraudulent as the transaction undoubtedly was, its execution had been unquestionably legal. So soon as the Chase bank certified the drafts
Secretary Stimson also recalled that Mr. Barlow once threatened to "bust on the nose" his predecessor, Frank Billings Kellogg, because that old gentleman did not seem interested enough in his case...
...good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production of the original, disguised under a title from Sexpert Havelock Ellis, would seem more than, a paraphrase of its own imitations. The Dance of Life is too long and overdetailed; it is handicapped with a tedious theme-song. Its virtues are faithfulness to its background, fairly legitimate sentiment, expert acting by the same people who played Burlesque on the stage except Nancy Carroll...