Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homer Stille Cummings which said that instituting a Federal suit was sometimes "a lifelong adventure." In Washington last week Attorney General Cummings tried his best to make the Judicial Conference's findings-that four out of ten Circuit and ten out of 85 District Courts needed new judges-seem not to be a partial rebuttal of his reasoning but a confirmation of it. Said he: "The Conference recommendation is a complete capitulation and a welcome...
...seem a strange activity to couple with the direction of a movement for national spiritual uplift. But the Manchurian conflict had taught China the truth of the tragic axiom that 'God helps those who help themselves...
Only an adroit photographer can snap lean Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain in such wise as to make it seem that he might have a paunch (see cut), but the same is not true of John Bull and last week His Majesty's Government launched an enormously costly campaign to make currently flabby Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain...
...Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them,' replied the American. 'Ah, now that big tree over there' (the train had halted) 'what is that?' asked the Englishman. 'Why that; that...
What. Mr. Justice Black did not seem to realize was that in the 20th Century there is simply no corner of the earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch...