Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concludes FORTUNE: "The U. S. desire to remain at peace does not. . . seem to be accompanied by a firm conviction that we shall properly be able to keep...
...Sometimes they were self-consciously obscure, like Anton Refregier's timely Invasion, in which a trio of Hieronymus Bosch-like monsters seem not to know what to do with a Soviet flag...
...193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
Even though war did not seem inevitable in July, the board of strategy was realistic: it said nothing about calling a peace conference. Wrote Dr. Palmer (before the war began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will...
...from the fact that it uses its salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom...