Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlawing barbarism from warfare, Mr. Hearst recently raised his voice for a humanitarian principle that has recurrently been embraced by idealists and in turn refuted by the bestiality and blind emotion of man. David Lloyd George's and Winston Churchill's wholehearted endorsement of Mr. Hearst's suggestion would seem to illustrate the inability of modern man to realize that humane principles can never be applied...
...driven to desperation when they are parted. The boy invokes Satan and goes to destruction; the girl invites his wandering soul to enter her body as a dybbuk. Climax of the film, the exorcising of the dybbuk from her body by the rabbinical council, makes the rites of witchcraft seem like Hallowe'en pranks...
...make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making its people seem any more real. Not by means of stale jokes cracked by the doomed, but by the simple facts of their plight do readers gain a sense of the tragedy of the Jeannette...
...tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...
...larger following than perhaps they deserve. And if Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem funny at the time, a vicious opinion purporting to state college sentiment, these are all within the power of college editors, and these are the things that can cut short a career, besmirch a character or hinder the work of an endowed institution...