Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further questioning brought out the fact that they only had to study it three times a week, however, which didn't seem too arduous. Party feeling was high in the little group talking to us and they all flaunted their red, shieldshaped badges with the SP on them. At Eger, where there has been much trouble recently, some more Sudetens got on who were going to the Partei Tag at Nurnberg. They, too, spoke bitterly against the government and wished for immediate betterment of their situation...
...Finance Minister negotiated the Italo-U. S. debt accord. Swank Countess Volpi is a Jewess and so is the old mother of Fascist Minister of Education Giuseppe Bottai. Indeed, so many Jews of long standing in Italy hold places in or close to the Regime and seem to be such loyal Fascists, that intimates of Il Duce have figured from the first that his anti-Semitism was chiefly a bluffing gesture to impress the Führer and to curry a little favor from Islam to keep the British worried in Palestine...
Since this was a wedding reception, Sistie and Buzzie got a taste of champagne. They didn't seem much impressed with the sour stuff...
...pastoral interlude when Marechal and Rosenthal try to escape to Switzerland, and a German peasant woman shelters them on her lonely farm. The pastoral ends. A border patrol fires at the two fugitives in the snow. The shrill ring of the shots is the more shocking because they seem-as Director Renoir wishes to make war seem-completely out of place, too horrible to be more than an illusion...
...Death Of A World, the faithful 5,000 get two installments somewhat above Author Romains' average. Men Of Good Will is not a straightforward narrative embracing many characters and telling a consecutive story. Its hero is modern society as a whole, so that characters are introduced who seem to have no connection with each other, drop out of sight and reappear according to no apparent plan. The first volume, beginning in Paris in 1908, introduced Quinette, a murderer, Gurau, a radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related...