Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measured accents before a hushed House of Commons last week, Sir Austen charged that the Cabinet's "thinking machine" does not seem to be working properly, and that in consequence the safety of the United Kingdom has been endangered. Since Mr. Baldwin, as Prime Minister, is also President of the Council of Imperial Defense, it was no bunch of roses which Sir Austen threw when he said: "Very reluctantly I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible in the present circumstances for the Prime Minister to be the effective head of the Imperial Defense Committee...
...something or had taken a lot for granted when he thus gave away the secret of his success: "The great secret of winning a naval engagement is to have the flagship always lead the way." When he heard of a proposed statue of himself, he demurred. "It does not seem proper to me that expense should be incurred in this manner at the present time. How can you be sure that I always shall live up to the monument that you propose to erect to me? I intend to remain prudent at all times until my death...
...Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) was a quiet masterpiece of emotion recollected in post-War tranquillity. Now, even for Veteran Sassoon, the War is long over. In middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste at all to literary palates accustomed to present-day poetic diet. To ageing Poet Sassoon, even the War is now hardly more than a misty memory...
...They don't have to spend a lot of time and work in building up a public. Of course not all good athletes have the ability to act. Some of them seem muscle bound or something. Max Baer is a good example of a talented athlete who made good in pictures, but he got much too swell headed...
...laughingly revealed clippings of the pictures taken on her recent trip to Cambridge to review the Hasty Pudding chorus. Her comments were enthusiastic. "They were all the grandest bunch of boys," she exclaimed. "The ones I met were all very nice and awfully good looking. They didn't seem at all embarassed to life their skirts for the cameramen when the pictures were taken. I really had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of my visit...