Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perennial peeve is in bloom again. Spring vacations seem to be all around us and a glance at the calendar of the 1938-39 catalogue gives cause for suspicion that our next year's vacation will be just as late and just as short as ever...
...seem to prove why our vacation should be longer to earlier, but we can at least urge malcontents not to say "Why is our vacation so much shorter and later than any other?", but rather to confine their complaint to "Why is our vacation shorter than Yale's and later than Vassar's, Smith's, or Bryn Mawr...
...many playwrights, producers seem a kind of necessary evil. Not only because they may blow hot & cold; not only because they may meddle. Also because, as the playwrights see it, they hog too much of the profits, impose too much of a capital-&-labor relationship...
...CRYSTAL WORLD-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). An author who always manages to seem honester than the words he writes, Novelist Aldington (Death of A Hero, All Men Are Enemies, et al.) here plies his trade-secret with a heavy hand. Twenty-one oozy love lyrics, written in the first person, are followed by a commentary in which he describes the crystal sources of the ooze. For debutantes, deadly poison...
...year-old Hollywood writer who sports $35 shoes, $7.50 socks, a $2,200 automobile, and who is in love with a brisk little bookstore clerk. It has its murder, its two ambiguous strangers, its undercurrent of tension accompanying commonplace scenes like luncheons and parties. But all consequential happenings seem to take place off stage. Readers are told a good deal about the intoxications of Jim Malloy and Peggy Henderson, but not so much about their hangovers; a good deal about their transports but not so much about their quarrels. And the wisecracks that seemed in O'Hara...