Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm depletion, vigilant Maine has an anti-poaching law with a $50 fine for out-of-Maine worm poachers. Unlike oyster beds which require occasional reseeding, Maine's worm muds seem inexhaustible. But Maine is taking no chances...
Foreign Secretary Eden kept interjecting that it would be easy for His Majesty's Government to seem courageous, but only at the expense of the peace of Europe. Therefore the Government's policy, said Mr. Eden, is "peace at almost any price." The Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, took occasion to call Britain's placid Government "swine" and their Conservative supporters at one point in the confused debate took to chanting "Peace! Peace! Peace...
...round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended in Manhattan and will go down in taxi history as a classic for both driver and passengers...
...profit of $130,000. Later if and when that company sells those securities it will not have any taxable profit on them unless they rise still higher. Mr. Irey described this as "rather novel" and added, "it should be stated in fairness to Mr. Hudson that his transactions seem to fall within the letter...
...peace. By estimating the magnitudes of these strains we can at least understand better the irrational vindictiveness of a people at war. The protestations of even intelligent. Northerners when Robert E. Lee was made President of Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, shortly after the close of the Civil War seem strange to this generation which in every part of the country recognizes Lee's greatness and nobility. In the "Nation" for September 14, 1865 there appeared the following comment...