Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curzon Street clanged brassily last week for the opening of the oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...Jungle Is Neutral is packed to the boards with incredible adventure and impressive evidence of human fortitude, but it is written without a note of excitement, understated to the point of monotone. For that reason, and by the simplicity of its statement, it makes most first-person war books seem almost shrill...
...with a row of lights along it. I don't know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with me. He might know what some of these things are..." A little later: "Let's hold up here a while. There are so many...
...There are worse things than a strike. Everybody gets a lot of things off their chests. They say a lot of dirty things and they seem to feel awfully good after it is all over and they are back to work...
...technical writing skill. He still has an ear for dialogue that makes his characters' conversation as credible as if it were overheard, whether they are talking in a brothel or planning a dinner at home. His gallery is extensive (housewives, doctors, politicians, businessmen, lovers, prostitutes) and the people seem as true and alive as if the reader had just met them. But Novelist O'Hara seems satisfied with only a casual-meeting knowledge of his people. Reading A Rage to Live is almost like exchanging slightly malicious gossip about one's home town over a drink...