Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is the lesson in all this? Hardly any. But it does seem that different individuals have different codes of morality or ethics or the art of living, call it what you will. And anybody who does not know the ideals of the men whom he is dealing with, whether it be in business or pleasure, should be wise enough not to budge from the conventional modes of address and conduct until he has assured himself that he will not give offence...
There might as first blush seem to be some reason for putting this work into the recess, since it hardly requires any formal instruction, and, for anyone who can give time to it, it is universally delightful. The King James Bible is what Professor Lowes calls the noblest monument of English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor...
...seem Miss Dunn, a carnival singer, spends two weeks with Scott when her circus wagon burns and marries him. At the moment of this marriage, an oil well suddenly sponts with gusto on Scott tries to run a pipe line to the refinery nearby but encounters labor difficulties since the time given by the refinery for the construction of the line is too short to suit the workmen. When most of his men have walked out hard guys employed by a railroad trying to gain control of the well start to tear up that portion of the line already laid...
...lately that its reappearance might have been refreshing. Unfortunately, they have spoiled it all. They have presented the development of the chief character neither evenly nor clearly. They have concentrated on no one emotional aspect. We are always being built up for a good cry, but it never does seem to come...
...speed of cataloguing new books are unavoidable. He revealed that Widener alone has a staff of 50 persons who spend all their time cataloguing. Some volumes, the cataloguing of which has been held up for a long time, will not be catalogued, he said, if it does not seem worthwhile. He also mentioned the method of "short cataloguing" used on certain books for which the demand is very limited...