Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less a parody than an amateur-hour attempt at something Ethel Merman can do much better...
...cold in the head had cut out Queen Elizabeth, who remained indoors while the picture was taken, and apparently cautious King George did not want any possible inference to be drawn from what might be so cut and printed as to seem to be a picture of His Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little...
...does not strike very close to home to tell the average U. S. citizen that commodity prices are at 50% of the 1924-26 norm (Dow-Jones). Index figures always seem a little theoretical. Last week, however, the public had plenty of opportunity to be impressed as dollars & cents first-quarter reports for many U. S. businesses put Depression in terms that anyone could understand. With the exception of a few fortunate industries, the figures were unanimous in showing that business has taken a tremendous beating in the first three months of 1938. Samples...
Givers of gratuitous advice are usually not very popular. If they give it to young, ambitious girls, they encounter another difficulty: they seem either presumptuous, as if doubtful of the talents, charm and intelligence of the girls they are advising, or sentimental in assuming that modern girls do not know what it is all about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs...
...Republican Party is certainly weaker than it was then," he explained, "and the Democrats are evidently seriously divided against themselves. I make no predictions, but the present situation would seem to be more favorable...