Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days the Army asked no odds of its opponents as the shades of Mad Anthony Wayne, George Washington, Custer, and countless others testify. The old days seem to have passed...
...more violent critics claim that Author Cabell's embroidered style serves to conceal a vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit...
However, all of this attempt to acquire equality seems to have gone a little too far. In the first place, women have had centuries of practice in forcing men to ask the proper question at the correct time while the male experience has been confined to merely acting on the hints. Moreover, the less favored of the female sex have built up that great tradition of not beautiful, but nice, so admirably supported by well meaning aunts, while man is merely conceited or ugly. Men have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem...
...remarkably leisurely, tranquil play, with none of the rapid pace and high tension upon which many productions rely for their effect. Coming like an old-fashioned waltz in the midst of a jazz program, it takes a little while to become adjusted and for some may seem slow and dull. But for those who can make the transition, there is beauty and wisdom in store...
From the results of meets held so far this season, he points out, the other leading contenders seem to be Penn State, New York University, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, and perhaps Maine. Penn has shown itself to have one of the strongest teams in the East by its recent victory in a quadruple meet, the scores of which were Penn 21, Cornell 51, Columbia 57, Dartmouth 81. In this meet, the Red and Blue runners took first, second, fifth, sixth, and seventh places...