Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith, president of Marble Savings Bank of small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued a serene, solvent...
...Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem disposed to change my mind, and to go, temporarily, to the other place to see the devil when he burns those strange uniforms off of some people who think they are Democrats but don't believe in the reserved rights of the States or the checks and balances provided...
...been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong in Mr. De Voto's apparent conflict with the University last spring...
Although Harvard is but one step nearer to actual acquisition of several million dollars, it is not too early to encourage thorough discussion of the uses to which it might be put. Three approaches seem possible today; the establishment of a Graduate School of Journalism, the opening of a new undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then...
...some three thousand miles and a comparatively small standing army, the United States could do worse than make friends with the more powerful nations to the South. America looms great as a world-power today, but with the stead-fast backing of Latin-America she would be, not seem, invincible. And though the present conference be limited to peace and its preservation, no firmer bonds exist in time of war than mutual cultural and economic interests. These are being cemented today at Buenos Aires. The eyes and attention of America should be fastened on that capital. What is transpiring there...