Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...this might seem academic, except that France has already laid down a building program which the British admiralty has announced will force Britain to take the escalator unless the French cancel part of their program before then, and this Prime Minister Tardieu has said over and over again France will...
Returns from prohibition polls continue to roll in. About 20 college and university dailies have conducted these surveys, and most of the results coincide with those of the national poll being conducted by the Literary Digest; the nation, these straws seem to show, is not satisfied with alcohol legislation as it now exists...
House Afire concerns a philosophical incendiary who sets a torch to unhappy homes in the hope that life will seem better in the embers' glow. He perceives, for instance, that young Mrs. Walter Elliott is uneasy in her installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe...
...character of the thoughtful fire-builder would seem to suggest a drama flickering with irony, but Playwright Mann Page has apparently overlooked this possibility, has devoted himself to the vapid story of the Elliotts. Inasmuch as they are wholly theatrical characters, limned without reality or wit, little can be said for the entertainment...
...work was prolific, typically Parisian: spirited, gay, colorful, slightly malicious. His whiskered gallants, snorting horses and elegant courtesans completely picture Victorian and Second Empire Europe, make Britain's John Leech seem as stodgy as bread pudding...