Word: seemly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Franklin, Emerson, Sumner, Eliot--seem to belong to the distant past. The continued prosperity of the school "in saccula sacculorium" is devoutly to be wished...
...honor as a barometer in forecasting the probable results of Presidential elections. This is due to the fact that State general elections in Maine are held in September of the even numbered years, instead of November as the case in most of the States. However, the students of politics seem to have entirely overlooked a real live proposition in the case of Kentucky...
When a man's life and sport are ruled by dogmatic hunting conventionalities to the extent of influencing his choice of automotive fuels, it would seem that the "plain gasoline" he uses might have been blended with sour grapes...
...Bishop Ryan is a most intolerant man. That at first glance may seem a severe indictment. . . . He was never intolerant, however, of real scholarship and earnest effort but merely of slipshod methods. . . . Allied with his intolerance, Bishop Ryan possessed a superiority complex. This dreadful sounding affliction was in no sense personal. . . . His authority as Rector of the University was vigorously exercised to support 'his consciousness of the superiority of Catholic culture...
...develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other G-men stories seem like Mother Goose. Although the operations of Government agents provide initial tension, the real drama is the conflict of the criminal characters, worked out between each other and the stranded couple...