Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason, and not written up to supplement the animal pictures which feature it, as is indicated in your review in this week's TIME. I mention this because I have always thought Mr. Mason deserved to be better known than he is, and while his plot may seem "silly" when put into the cinema, his book, although written for a less sophisticated decade, would perhaps find more favor with you. Present day readers might appreciate more his House of the Arrow, which I consider one of the best mystery stories ever written. ANITA CIFRE...
...extension of his project would seem fantastic in one less able. It is no less than to throw his lines entirely around South America, splicing them near the continent's bottom by a lacet between Buenos Aires. Then his Caribbean knot will be a handle to the bucket that he expects to make of South American air transportation...
...prima donna, he overhears a lusty scene in her boudoir. A clever playwright writes the scene into a play for her so it will seem she was only rehearsing...
...been made of wood and canvas. Inside were gathered ten young naval cadets, several of them dressed as clowns, and four firemen, two of whom impersonated a bride and groom. They played comic parts in the various rooms, waiting for the red lights which would cause the building to seem on fire. They would then be "res-cued" by the fire company's expert ladder-work. Next the building would be set really ablaze, to display the fire company's hose-work...
...life and what I possess to bring that about." He questioned that war was the right method, and, therefore, since he was in conflict with his government and his Church, lost his diocese. Today the Protestant churches are pacifistic. No longer, therefore, does the onetime Bishop of Utah seem dangerous to Episcopalians, Queried the Churchman: "Is there no place in the ministry of the Episcopal Church for Paul Jones...