Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From some of the issues immediately before and after the first of the year he learned that there had been three prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes...
...attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know that your capital...
...Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem now definitely committed to a program of social legislation which will iron out some of the inequities of our economic order. . . . This is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times and with the lessons which the Depression taught...
Hutter a member of the American Olympic team last summer, is swimming better this year than at any other time in his Harvard career. His time trials in the 100-yard event seem to indicate that he will be very close to the record tonight...
Departmental work in upperclass years is almost tutor-proof, and even underclass courses seem to grow less amenable to "cold-doping," which is the greatest and most lucrative sin of the big-money instructors. Legitimate forms of tutoring seem to become more popular, and the tutors, sometimes to their own confessed astonishment, seem to become educators. Undoubtedly there is still too much tutoring of the sort which merely postpones for a few months the time when student and university must part company, but the day has passed when a young man can casually sign up for routine tutoring in course...