Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south of the Big Dipper) from which the darting points of light will seem to come...
Some Winchell "cracks" of the past two months: "Evelyn Dallas, who got all that publicity when Geo. White discovered her in Florida, was dumped with others . . . Harry Richman, however, diamond-wrist watched her, and she likes . . . Mary Garden doesn't seem to be swooning at sight of Capt. Babe (6 ft. 7) White, the African explorer any more. ... A high official who 'resigned' recently because of 'ill health' was forced to retire because he was Harry Thawish. . . . What theatrical att'y has terpsichorines fired from shows when they do not go out with...
...seem queer now, but in the old days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good...
...Boston was marked by the annual meeting of the American Legion. Doubtless the founders, could, they have looked down on their city during that week, would have felt honored. The Legion has not been distinguished for the decorum and sobriety of its conventions, but its excesses in Boston seem to have passed the bounds of previous meetings except that at Kansas City...
...game between the Yale and Army players on Saturday was a hard-fought and honorable tie. The postmortem battle of statements between the officials of the two institutions, now that the returns are in, also seem to be a tie in absurdity...