Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...call your attention to two practices abroad in the land that seem to me to be very bad for the nation psychologically...
Safari, evidently desiring to make the jungle seem as tame as a well-run menagerie, is slow entertainment. Its air of careful understatement carries over into the dialogue. Mr. Fairbanks, by way of complimenting glaireous Miss Carroll's appearance, observes: "She looks nice and clean...
This is simple and it is nice it seems general it seems vague but isn't there a lot of truth in it. It is the same with Gertrude Stein's stories the stories she tells about the French to show their logic and their sense of fashion, qualities that make them seem peaceful and exciting, for instance Monsieur Lambert. Gertrude Stein met him with his wife and oxen...
...fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...
...heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who for 30 years before his death last July had dogged away at naval preparedness. "Mr. Swanson and I seem to vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress, is the importance of our Coast Guard. His plea is, 'Protect our shores!' " Two famed victims of World War I, Aviator Quentin Roosevelt and Nurse Edith...