Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These details casually viewed may seem little more than mere routine to a great many members of the class; even the election results may in some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years...
Battle Front conditions, however pleasing they might seem to John Lewis, were actually growing uglier every day. Some 40,000 of G. M.'s nonstriking employes went back to part-time work last week without violence. But in strike-bound Flint, the anti-strike Flint Alliance turned out 8.000 citizens for a mass meeting at which John Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed...
Although it may seem to the rest of the world that for the last four years most German orators have shouted themselves hoarse denying the "war guilt" of Germany as admitted, signed and ratified in the Treaty of Versailles, last week Der Führer apparently considered it a great achievement to bring the Reichstag to its feet bellowing cheers at these words of the Realmleader...
...Harvard boys seem to have acquired an ability to do gracefully that which they should not ," smilingly observed Eugenia Rawis as she observed several exam-worm specimens toying with cooling refreshments in the Ritz bar last night. "They are just too, too . . . ." but the Jane of "Pride and Prejudice" current at the Colonial left that up to the imagination and became more serious...
Harvard students don't seem to be very imaginative when they turn to philanthropy. The Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross, therefore, is a little irritated...