Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government 1 deciding that a three hour session is futile, the proponents of the scheme had to talk in an atmosphere of failure. Only extremely hard work by members of last year's Committee made the reviews possible, and at this late date the idea just did not seem to be worth the exertion. All the same, the process of thought which lay behind the adverse vote must have been a curious...
Without doubt the United Auto Workers would be repudiated if 7a were applied, for a majority of the men seem to be opposed to that union. A form of compulsory arbitration is the pass word out of the impasse, assuring justice as far as it can be determined and saving the faces of both sides. Owners and unions alike ought to be haled into court if they cannot work together smoothly, for just as it has police power to coerce disorderly citizens, the public should have machinery to stop the endless and costly bickering of the current strikes...
...wasn't for the perennial blue streak launched at New Haven, this goal wouldn't seem in any way stratospheric; and after looking over Coach Ulen's material, even Yale's marine supremacy takes on a less invincible aspect...
...would seem that the Renaissance of Women is but a recent phase in the trend of history, Jane Bennet, the beauteous daughter of a country-squire Bennet, and one of three sisters, nearly pines to death over a lost love in a manner that highly smacks of "days of old and knights of yore. In marked contrast the modern girl would never permit so much as a frown to belie the sorrow and chagrin within her. Sister Elizabeth, as played by Muriel Kirkland, is a far more sensible and sophisticated young woman. She, together with her rattle-brained, match-designing...
Anyone who was growing up in Eastern Europe in 1916 could hardly avoid experiences that in peacetime would seem abnormal. Lola Kinel, a Polish girl whose family lived in Petrograd, had no more than her share of Wartime and post-War cyclones, but to U. S. readers the weather she lived through seems stormy indeed. A cut above the usual adventure-autobiography, This Is My Affair should appeal to those who find true stories as readable as novels and often more entertaining...