Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grynszpan is saved from the guillotine it will make Clarence Darrow's snatching of Leopold and Loeb from the gallows seem like a successfully pleaded traffic case. However, Miss Thompson was able, with $10.000 (213.000 francs) in hand, to hire the Clarence Darrow of the Paris bar, the great Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, a fiery Paris-born Corsican who in the Herriot Cabinet of 1926 was Lender Secretary on Technical Instruction...
Advance Base was originally intended to be occupied by three men not one; all the confusion that has arisen over the cause of the self-imposed isolation Admiral Byrd clears up in the first chapter. The reasons were both scientific and personal, and though they do not seem adequate considering the obvious risks involved, the more important fact remains that Byrd decided to go and go alone, Thanks to a diary, a detailed record of the events was preserved. Scientifically, important readings of temperature, barometer, wind directions and velocities were made, Personally, the story was told of a man face...
...over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...
Speaking of the characteristics of the two teams, he said, "There is no bad blood. The going is plenty tough, but you don't seem to mind because there is good feeling all around. Generally there is close similarity between the men playing on both teams. They don't know when to quit; they fight till they drop...
...powerful set of reserves to fill in. The second line-up is: Huffard, Boxton, Zilly and Seabury ends, John and Taylor tackles, Hemingway and Charlie Miller guards, Starbuck and Willard centers, and Humphrey, Wilson, Burr and Whiteman backs. The whole squad is in good fighting form, and they seem to have the old do-or-die attitude to the last degree...