Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME investigated the possibility of a cartoon page, thumbed down the idea for the present because there do not seem to be enough good cartoons for a weekly collection. Only a dozen U. S. cartoonists and about the same number abroad, are doing professionally acceptable work. Also 90% of U. S. cartoons are monotonously one-sided (anti-New Deal). But TIME, stimulated by its researches, will print more cartoons whenever they are pertinent as illustration, amplification or horrible example...
...thoughtful U. S. churchmen know many a U. S. cult has prospered by: 1) promising, and to some extent producing visible results here & now; 2) spreading doctrines which seem more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location...
...scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died an hour later in a Billings hospital. Pilot Bullock, shaken but unhurt, was amazed. "It just didn't seem to pick up, once we got in the air," he said...
Friendly biography by an admirer whose accounts of the poet's life have the effect of documenting some unpleasant aspects of his character, and whose tributes to Wilde's poetry make it seem dated and dull...
...journey, pictured social conditions of the time, shown the source of Tocqueville's opinions, combined them with biographies of both men. Although Author Pierson accuses Tocqueville of missing the significance of the abolition movement and underestimating the power of a plutocracy, his book makes Tocqueville's observations seem extraordinary, Tocqueville's warnings to democracy timely...