Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...facts wrong, FORTUNE last week released a digest of the poll two weeks before its scheduled publication in the magazine's October issue. The poll showed 53.2% of U. S. voters for Franklin Roosevelt, 35.6% for Wendell Willkie. FORTUNE'S conclusion: "Eliminating the undecided, only 43.9% seem to be in favor of his [Willkie's] election, against 56.1% opposed to it. But in the number of people answering 'don't know'-10.8% more than those having no opinion on Roosevelt-lie Willkie's chances to be elected...
...faith in democracy is the gallery of the U. S. House of Representatives. Down below, in that swarm of 435 members, small men, bound by the small necessities of politics, outnumber big men. House debate often sounds like an aimless caterwauling; order, purpose, logic more often than not seem lost in a parliamentary jungle. Yet there is order, of a kind. It is arranged and enforced by a few members: the Majority and Minority Leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of key committees (Rules, Ways & Means, Judiciary, Appropriations)-and above all by the Speaker of the House...
...handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate the Society. Once Dr. Gino began: "And as we look at our program (printed on the back of an old vice president). . . ." The Society's signature is Basin Street Blues, which at the close is played in the manner of Haydn's Farewell Symphony, the musicians...
...sticking its neck out along with the rest of the football prognosticators of the country, the CRIMSON here gives its own predictions on Harvard and Yale games this year. It is hard to fortell results so early in the season, but these are the scores as they seem likely...
...flanks right now, but a lot can happen by November 16 when the Bruins invade the stadium. If they can plug those gaps, their classy backfield will be heard from. Harvard-Yale games are almost impossible to predict, even the ay before, but at this writing the Harlowmen seem to have a slight edge. They outrushed and outpassed the Elis last fall and lost only through fumbles. Yale will be a bit better than it was in 1939, but it should take more than that to upset Harvard again...