Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diverting his thoughts from the river's brink in an evening of alcoholic pleasantry, she should marry the fellow to complete his salvation. Like most plots, this one has not all the elements of originality, but in "The Girl from 10th Avenue," Bette Davis and Ian Hunter make it seem both plausible and pleasing...
...seekers after monetary stability, this sequence of events may at first seem calamitous. It is true, nevertheless, that general inflation would be a more satisfactory basis for international negotiation than the present hybrid status. Thus although devaluation of the franc may cause temporary panic in France, it need not be disastrous in its ultimate consequences. On the contrary, if it should make possible an adjustment of the existing economic warfare, it would be of tremendous value to the world in general and therefore to France itself...
Dispassionately observed Political Pundit Frank R. Kent: "Probably the facts will never be fully known. To a detached observer, however, two things seem clear. One is that, without in the least doubting the veracity of Mr. Wallace or Mr. Davis, somebody connected with the AAA knew a lot more about this movement than they. They would, of course, welcome an investigation and it would establish their complete ignorance and innocence. Nonetheless, somewhere down the line, if all were known, there worked the hidden hand of a really skillful 'public relations counsel...
...worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...
...fame was his wife. Audrey Wurdemann, who had just won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer Prize has never come his way, but Poet Auslander has been poeticizing for years, is much better known than his newcomer wife. To some readers of his verse, it may even seem that he has been writing poetry since before he was born. His facile images and garrulous lines show versifying talent often, poetic mastery never...