Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eternal verities, such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...
Newspaper articles entitled "Why I hope to be the next Mayor of Boston" end the Curley question. For many years Massachusetts politicians have entertained rallies with descriptions of the ex-governor, and though the adjectives were always colorful, his friends and enemies could not seem to agree on the character of the evergreen statesman. Like Prosperity he is always just around the corner, and like a rubber ball the harder he is thrown the faster he comes back. His hat is in the center of the ring again; if lifted it would reveal a well-greased political machine running overtime...
...left nothing undone to make us happy in many ways. We owe you and the rest of the Management a lot. . . . We are not working for the Trane Co. We are working with the Trane Co. for a common good-yours and ours. We realize that this procedure may seem unusual, but we'd like to have you know just the way we feel. The very culmination of this message is proof of its sincerity." The message was signed by every Trane employe from Gottfried Abegglen to Leonard Zielke...
When Somerset Maugham wrote his first novels in the late 1890s they were regarded as daringly modern. These books would seem primly old-fashioned now. Still up-to-date, still a jump ahead of his popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like...
...film is done entirely in techni-perfect, the previously annoying eye strain is pleasantly absent. So far, photographers seem to have been unable to avoid an exaggeration of color, but many of the mountain shots are exceedingly well done...