Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lying Was Easy." That afternoon when Chambers first appeared in court-a chubby, bland-faced little man in a dark blue suit and a black tie-the quiet was broken by excited babble from the spectators. Chambers did not seem to hear. He stared without expression at gaunt, handsome Alger Hiss and his decorous, greying wife, Priscilla. He seated himself in the witness chair, took the oath, fixed his eyes on the ceiling toward the back of the room and, in a low, even voice, began his long story...
...cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story and-for just a moment-austerity England seems to be merrie England once again...
...Miami, the Knight-owned Herald (circ. 186,166) and the Cox-owned Daily News (circ. 88,223) take turns denouncing gamblers and racketeers who do a reputed $100-million-a-year business in Dade County. Most Miamians ignore the periodic newspaper crusades; they seem to feel that the gamblers are only giving well-heeled tourists the fling they want...
...usual, Wall Streeters could give no solid reason for the selling. It simply looked as if investors, watching the creeping inroads of the "slide," had finally decided that U.S. business was headed for more serious trouble. But businessmen did not seem to be nearly as worried as the investors who had unloaded their stocks...
Ther is a notion in the land that the writings of Henry Louis Mencken were served up exclusively for a by-gone age, namely the Twenties, and it follows that they no longer merit attention. This notion was voted, on and passed, it would seem, by the professional critics of our letters, their camp-followers, and their spiritual confreres, all of whom are afflicted with the need either to treat things seriously or to ignore them altogether. Since Mencken clearly cannot be taken seriously in this day and age, the alternative is chosen, with the result that his books, except...