Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia I never at any time saw the slightest misconduct on the part of any delegate from Texas or any other State. The trouble with some of the ultra-conservatives up your way is that if a man makes a little noise he is drunk. You do not seem to understand the psychology of having a good time otherwise. . . . It is my understanding that there were 100,000 visitors in Philadelphia and that many of them were Republicans as well as Democrats...
...will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such a law got only nine Senate votes. Even Joe McDonald was against it. "In Kansas," cried he, "we seem to have a unique Utopia in which the Drys have the law and the Wets have their liquor. It's true that most of the taxes go to Missouri, but since I like a nice cold glass of beer, and everybody knows it, I'll vote...
...Ohio State's dusky Jesse Owens, in what would have seemed an incredible feat had not his own record in the past two years made it seem inevitable, won three events: 100 metres, 200 metres, broad jump. No one else qualified in more than two events...
...disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...
Anthony Thorne looks not unlike Richard Halliburton, and both have the endearing faculty of telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well...