Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Mikkola has promised that this race will be one of the hardest that Crimson harriers have ever run in the past few years, but the Playfair runners seem to have a little too much power to be seriously threatened by anyone that Princeton or Yale can show...
...dramatic' nature of Eliot's poetry. This is a point of some importance; in fact, it is of capital importance in any consideration of Eliot. By calling most of Eliot's poetry 'dramatic' Mr. Matthiessen means that Eliot seldom speaks in his own person, even in poems which may seem to be lyrica. Thus Eliot is not Tiresias or Apeneck Sweeney or Mr. Prufrock, and the peculiar spiritual attributes of each are not necessarily Eliot's. The poems in which the persons cited appear are often called to witness by sociological critics of the Marxist persuasion as evidences of Eliot...
Another Egyptian lickspit, if possible more heartily detested by his people than the Premier, is Ismail Sidky Pasha. He once made a fine puppet Premier for Britain (1930-33) and itches for that palmy job again. In an effort to shake Britain down and make it seem necessary to buy his silence, Statesman Sidky abruptly flew into a rabble-rousing rage last week, roared out part of what any Egyptian leader would say if he tried to speak for the long-oppressed and today spunkless Egyptian people...
...been malicious about some mutual acquaintance he would return the next day and compensate for his malice by reviewing the individual's good qualities. The idiosyncracies that others have ascribed to Proust- his practice of attending parties bundled in heavy overcoats, his flowery and affected speech-seem not to have bothered Marie Scheikévitch in the least. She describes the heavy log-rolling that went on before Swann's Way appeared, in order to insure it a good press, Proust's anxiety about the reception of his work. Proust died in agony almost as soon...
...process used two complete teams with no individual substituting. This expedient, designed to season more men for Harlow's mill, has since been abandoned, and the unit system no longer prevails. In addition four men have climbed up to the A team from the depths, and at present writing seem to have early fairly secure berths there...