Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial work. For many years there has been contention between Labor and Capital. . . . The daily news with respect to labor disputes is now of vast proportion. . . . Strong sympathy for or strong prejudice against a given cause . . . has too often led to suppression or coloration of unwelcome facts. It would seem . . . reasonable prudence for an association engaged in part in supplying the public with fair and accurate factual information with respect to the contest between Labor and Capital, to see that those whose activities include that service are free from either extreme sympathy or extreme prejudice one way or the other...
...satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...
...lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct as action. Ralph Bates's second novel never mentions Spain's civil war or the state of Europe. It is the tale of how six men found their way down through society to a Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey...
Desperately homesick, sick of the senseless killing and intrigues, George and Alfred concluded bitterly that "things Americans believed in didn't seem to mean anything in this foreign country." Anti-U. S. feeling, open attacks on U. S. troops reached a peak with the refusal of General Graves to deliver a shipment of guns when he discovered a plot to use them against his own men. But what hurt most was to read in the screaming newspapers from home that all of them, including General Graves, were Bolsheviks to a man. On a railway platform Alfred...
...these goals before her, willing to sacrifice everything to acquire them. Yet she died at the age of twenty-four, having gone only a short way on her ambitious and difficult journey. Gladstone read her diary and recognized her as "a true genius, one of these abnormal beings who seem to be born into the world once or twice in a generation...