Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Stout's fondness for horse races and beer, his convivial daily luncheons (see cut, p. 22) and handball games with the staff. But right out of old Mr. Lorimer's book is the reaching journalistic curiosity, the solid dependability and the capacity to absorb work which seem most typical of Wesley Stout. Under Wesley Stout the Post has moved no further leftward than it stood in the stand-pat days of George Horace Lorimer. Extreme partisanship, however, with regard to the current economic battle lines was much more a part of Mr. Lorimer's nature than...
...changed but little. . . . When a Greek has learning he understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute to the author's honesty...
...present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard student wants the college to become a school for learning only the principles of good citizenship or the trades. It should not be the business of Harvard College to train students for jobs...
McNamee calls the attack vicious. Few with an objective viewpoint can call his running description less than vicious. It is a definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...
...finality, that's all the writing. Now stand up and look straight at me. I'm sorry I haven't a better face to look at, but it will have to do. There. Open your mouth, please; don't say "Ah!"; just keep it open, Good! Your eyes seem perfect to me. Now, if you will sign your name three times--here and here and here, we are through...