Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society found their seats quite nimbly in the dark, came through like little majors with applause. Bursting with bright ideas, Who's Who usually fumbled them in either the writing or the acting. Possibly Producer Maxwell would have considered it not quite suitable for the show to seem too professional...
That the gay course of Merrily We Live is always breezy but never aimless is due partly to its Morrie Ryskind-Eric Hatch (My Man Godfrey) pattern, more particularly to the craft of Director Norman McLeod, whose technique of making every character seem important in neatly overlapped situations makes for speedy, clinker-built comedy. A minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry...
...native tribesmen, black as a tinker's pot and quick to catch on about the law of supply and demand. In 1930 it occurred to them to do something about prices. Cocoa was so low on world markets that working on the farm didn't seem worth their while. In a few months much West African cocoa land was jungle again, and the price of cocoa went up. In 1936 there was slightly less rain than usual in the rainy season-what, for Equatorial Africa, amounted to a drought. Cocoa went up again. The natives, reflecting...
...feet from the Vagabond's not-glittering shoe-tips. Emblazoned all over its simonized flanks were painted signs proclaiming it a dual-control driver-training car. A. Mr. Yordan, from the Bureau for Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls make up my two classes." Four girls, huh? Without...
...short, the means are often taken for the aim, the sign for the thing represented. Thus Professor Lake's comments seem both familiar and well founded, and I cannot help wondering why the Crimson makes these remarks of Professor Lake's an occasion for criticizing a great and humane scholar...