Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sudeten, Su-day-ten or Sudeten? Is P-r-a-g-u-e pronounced Pray-ge, Prog or Prar-gay ? Radio announcers and news commentators do not seem to know...
Merely the thought of Hitler's treatment of German Jews makes his protest of Czechoslovakia's discrimination against the Sudetens seem like a hypocritical fabrication. It was the removal of subversive elements that were threatening the unity of the state that Hitler claimed to be the purpose of the rout of the non-Aryans from Germany (it seems that he considers every Jew a Communist and every Communist a Jew). On the other hand, if questioned about the Poles in German Silesia, he would reply that they were more German than Polish, and hence should continue to live under...
That even the ridiculous has a limit is proved by the latest farce of the Marx brothers, "Room Service," an exact copy of the George Abbott stage production of the same name. The boys do not seem at home with their gags; the timing misses, the efforts used to get laughs are often strained. There is no hilarious sequence like that of the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." In truth, the brothers seem awed by the fact that they are in a picture bought, not built, for their talents...
...that could as well be achieved on a world cruise, as things stand now. Intellectually, well-roundedness was an ideal discarded five hundred years ago: yet we may well ask ourselves whether we ought not to undergo the discipline of the liberal arts curriculum. It must, in any case, seem odd to give the title of bachelor of arts annually to hundreds who are in any way proficient in only one or two of the fundamental seven arts...
...protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than the chairman of such an omni-industrial company...