Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been my thought that executions usually carried an air of solemnity and the cigar-chewer does not seem to add dignity and sobriety to the occasion. However, maybe I'm wrong...
...print these might seem bold words, but Premier Blum spoke in the low, monotonous voice of a teacher reading some-well-worn lecture to his class. Gloomily he concluded: "Faith in peace is shaken. The final catastrophe seems to be preferred to the anguish of waiting...
...nothing more than a pure implement for peace, and its operation ought not normally to contain any danger of war. That means that, if it is to be complete, Collective Security must be combined with General Disarmament." Chances for obtaining that, admitted M. Blum, are so poor as to seem "almost ridiculous...
...Francisco Seals for a reputed $75,000, not a record price but one high enough to justify him in displaying the utter lack of ability which expensive minor-league stars conventionally show in their major-league debuts. Any chance Di Maggio might have had to shine this season seemed even more thoroughly ruined by the attention he received in training camp, where sportswriters hailed him as the prize find of a decade. Far from achieving the collapse which his billing led sophisticated baseball addicts to expect, Rookie Di Maggio proceeded to make the notices seem inadequate. For his first month...
...Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls...