Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, been my intention to do so but your scurrilous article on King Edward has decided me against it. Not only do you deny His Majesty the common right of privacy but your article placed unnecessary emphasis on certain factors. . . . Your magazine is not of the sort to be seen in any decent family drawing-room...
...Seen But Not Heard (by Marie Baumer & Martin Berkeley; D. A. Doran. producer) is one of those semi-serious melodramas in which the actions of the characters are motivated entirely by necessities of plot. Its principal actors are three juveniles. That circumstance permits the authors to finesse one natural denouement after another by having the old folks squelch the children every time they are in a position to reveal important evidence as to who killed Aunt Helen and Uncle John...
...other respects the famous little pamphlet, given out at registration and rarely seen thereafter, remains about the same as ever...
Major portion of yesterday afternoon's practice was given over to the interpretation and application of the rules. Leo Daley, president of the New England Football Officials Association, and three other officials who have seen service in the Harvard Stadium, spoke to the squad on the enforcement of the 1936 innovations in the rule book. They officiated for an hour of dummy scrimmage, showing just how fouls are committed and explaining the penalties inflicted for each...
...from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly seen, they tend to disappear or grow cloudy as the descriptions of the customs and habits of mind of the "slummies" interrupt the narrative...