Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was Mr. Matthews' own state of mind that he described this answer as "the only rational remark of the whole astonishing day." To predict the outcome of the war, or even its next phase, had begun to seem to experts sheer folly. According to latest dispatches, this week General Miaja's militia and his International Column were pushing steadily toward Generalissimo Franco's base at Siguenza...
...with a declaration of high business ethics, winding up with a pru dent word about making good banking connections "in advance of their need" and liberally interlaced with such pur poses as the promotion of "Americanism and a real, live spirit of patriotism." Confused though its policies may seem, Armco is a money-making proposition, old Mr. Verity writing his 20,000 stockholders last week that 1936 earnings were $6,441,000, an improvement over...
...readers who remember such zip-past-the-window milestones as prize novels, it may seem only yesterday that Paul Morgan won a Harper $7,500 prize with his first published book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...
...from youth. Some youths get up and sing in defiant tones that although they may be babes in arms they are also babes in armor, and that they'll show the world, or words to that effect. One can scarcely feel that their predicament is a common complaint: they seem to be the offspring of a whole town full of vandeville players who hit the road and leave the children to fare for themselves or go to the governmentally sponsored "farm", where, it is universally agreed, nothing obtains but the basest of slavery. So the youths rise in arms. Their...
Despite the popularity and readability of Miss Borden's previous novels, the future of "Action For Slander" does not seem bright. It lacks a plot of sufficient body to support the characterization which is, by and large, well-conceived. Her new effort makes fairly amusing reading, but little more can be said...