Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
...town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence to the Rogers formula gives The Arkansas Traveler, first picture in which Burns has appeared as a star, much of the same amiable, folksy entertainment value...
Through such appeals the Court has been overloaded, and "has not only been forced to take sides in essentially political controversies, but also to decide technical, economic, and business problems in what is bound to seem to the defeated interests and artificial and legalistic way," he said...
...contest the invasion of six squash courts in the new Hemenway gymnasium by the varsity team, arise from the false notion that the new courts were built expressly for the convenience of the Law School, or if not, that they should have been. The law students do not seem to realize that for years the varsity squash team has been pursuing its way around courts that have varied more than two feet in dimension, and their need for the standard courts at Hemenway outweighs the burden on law students of an occasional five minute walk. Exercise for law students...
Disastrous effects of New England's famous hurricane don't seem to be over yet. At least that's what the members of the hockey squad found out to their dismay today...