Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bumper crop, might pay and be paid in cash if he chose. But there would be no insurance against price drops. The committee thought a $100,000,000 appropriation would be enough to get the system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that in the past ten years, exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have...
Because there are only 12 racquets courts and about 300 racquets players in the U. S., racquets might seem to offer a choice field for any able-bodied young man who wanted the distinction of championship at some well-publicized and patrician indoor sport. Last week, this point of view appeared to be substantiated when a wiry, darkhaired young Manhattan stockbroker named Robert Grant III, in his first season of serious racquets competition, won the U. S. amateur championship in New York's Racquets & Tennis Club after playing four tournament matches in the course of which he lost only...
Picked out of a 5?-&-10? store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty...
...Americans whose eyes are still smarting from the unhappy ending of the Wall Street fairy tale of 1929, John Steinbeck's little dream story will not seem out of line with reality; they may even overlook the fact that it too is a fairy tale. An oxymoronic combination of the tough & tender, Of Mice and Men will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists. Critic Christopher Morley found himself "purified" by this "masterpiece . . . written in purest compassion and truth." Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen...
Since the whole period of the School is covered here, there are certain of the earlier ones which may seem rather slight. But most are highly skilled landscapes in miniature, wide panoramas of English country or coast. Among these the Boston Museum's "Dover" of Turner is pre-eminent...