Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restricted by labor laws which enable their employees to do less work for more pay." Mr. Lippmann does not suggest that more purchasing power in the hands of workers enables managers to produce more and so facilitates the production of wealth. At this point Mr. Lippmann does not seem to believe in either the redistribution of the wealth or organization of workers. But 100 pages further on when he writes the agenda of a constructive liberalism, he finds that the liberal state "must by its own principles encourage and protect cooperative organization of producers, such as farmers and working...
...Hall finally succeeds in escaping frim his Tahitian cell and proceeds to guide a canoe over six hundred miles of open ocean to Manukura. Strange as it may seem, the incidents in his journey are so well chosen that the laments of good luck or coincidence never destroy the suspense. Then comes, perhaps, the greatest climax that has yet been seen on any screen to date--the hurricane. Those shots of stupendous seas and wind and the devastation which they cause to the island and its inhabitants cannot adequately be described. After seeing "Hurricane" one feels that one has been...
Based on political satire that is amusing if not very biting, "All Baba" is worth seeing though to some it may seem to suffer from the plethora of stage and screen production of the same nature currently before the public...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
...remedy the danger of becoming too ingrown is hard to say. It would seem highly desirable for the "Guardian" to develop sufficient standing to be receiving articles from men outside the immediate vicinity of the Yard...