Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...Canadian competition that it buys full-page ads to fight foreign cars as such. Some of these advertisements attempt the fear appeal. In one, a British couple are shown shamefacedly scuttling out of their golf club, as the wife says to her husband, "I always feel uneasy here. We seem to be the only people with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings blushing shame to the cheeks of one of his salesmen with the hint: "I don't think it looks well for one of our representatives...
...attics and among the heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park...
...really worrying the coaches now is the position of goalguard. With no lettermen returning, Coach Canterbury will have to develop one of the eight reporting to fill the shoes of Ash Emerson. George Mahoney and Nort Kidder were the net minders for the Jayvees last year and would seem to have the edge so far, but either Dave Wilder, Alex Irving, Jack Allen, Bill Kerr, or Dave Mittell all in the Sohphomore class, may prove the answer...
Major Berry's invitation to business men to prepare for the meeting of the Industrial Council in December leaves no doubt as to the future course of the New Deal. Difficult as it is to analyze the meaning of a Presidential election, Mr. Roosevelt does not seem to be far wrong in interpreting it as a commission to go ahead with industrial reorganization of the country...