Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a fellow gets beaten in a race, he is a mighty poor loser if he attempts in any way to explain his defeat. When a fellow has not been in a race, however, it seems legitimate to call that fact to the attention of those who seem to believe that someone else beat...
...born a Britisher, and as blood is thicker than water, I still have a warm place in my heart for the British Isles. For this reason the escapades of King Edward VIII, and especially his relations with Mrs. Simpson, while almost revolting to a strict Churchman, seem to me to have a far deeper significance than that which is generally attributed to them...
...being what it is, the environment of the general hospital has tended to make of obstetric art a sort of surgical specialty in which many an ill-fitted practitioner may essay to shine. The answer is not a return to domiciliary care of normal parturients. Paradoxical as it may seem, the answer is in a greater degree of hospitalization and specialization within the hospital...
...great ones, too she gets nervous at the mistakes they make, and says to me 'Oh, daddy, what would you say to me if I played like that?' ' Father Slenczynski. who was shell-shocked during the War. has done much to make his talented young daughter seem horridly precocious. Like a Svengali he dictates her routine, eyes her sharply from the wings whenever she plays in concerts...
...difficult for an American to reconcile Oxford's almost unlimited academic freedom with her motherly moral restraints. It would seem the young Englishman grows quickly in mind but leaves his morals for others to develop. (On the other hand I've seen some corking good wall scalers!) How much of this proctoral jurisdiction serves to continue a rich tradition and how much of it to encourage a stubborn hypocrisy is, I suppose, a matter of whether you prefer mutton or frankfurters...