Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, Edward VIII has always scrupulously performed his outward "public duties." He has been the "Empire Salesman." He has led a charmed youth with the result that today at 42 he still seems from a distance of 15 feet only about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique...
...City a pale-faced street crowd jigs automatically to the twangy jazz rhythms of Alexandre Tansman's Transatlantique, an accompaniment which makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that...
...even readers impressed with Author Farrell's grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters' obsessed disgust with sexual and other bodily functions that has the strange effect of making them seem uniformly immature...
Those at whose doors all these events take place never seem to be numbered among our personal acquaintances, but that is doubtless only an indication of the incipient breakdown of the capitalist system. At least the important compiling of records of deeds of derring do is performed for all who have eyes to see by little cultural phenomena like the Boston Daily Record...
...younger generation, it would seem, has no intention of breaking records in the matter of being graduated with the least possible amount of studying, even though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...