Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...impossible to live on this West Coast without feeling exasperated at one's mail from New York. New Yorkers seem peculiarly subject to a contagion of panic and they forget that west of the Hudson River lies the United States, which is still an immense and magnificent country inhabited by a vigorous race of people...
...continent of South America, as few U. S. citizens seem able to remember, lies, not due south of the U. S., but southeast, poking a broad, inquisitive nose toward Africa, only 1,600 miles away. Valparaiso, on the west coast of South America, is east of New York City, on the east coast of the U. S. Paraguay, in the heart of South America, is equidistant from Kansas City and from the Mediterranean. Racially, politically, economically, this vast, rich and fractionally developed continent is much closer to Europe than...
...China, in India his name (sometimes confused with Sinclair Lewis) is known to people who never heard of Ernest Heming way, never will hear of Branch Cabell. This is not merely because Sinclair's clear, unsubtle writing practically translates itself. It is because his fables make social injustice seem simple...
That thrifty, busy studio, whose staple is westerns and whose fingers are close to the popular pulse, had a hunch. They decided to make a war picture, and thought of Elsie Janis. They also ran into unexpected opposition. In 1939 war did not seem as much fun to Actress Janis as in 1917. She agreed to play in a war picture on condition that she approved the script and that she be permitted to remark from time to time during the film that war is gruesome. She even objected when Director John Auer told her how to remark...
Even to people who have no means of sharing Chesterton's European culture and Roman Catholic faith, his thesis, though it is not unique, will seem uniquely clean-cut. It is serenely distinct from cliches of wartime propaganda. Chesterton points out that, if Europe's politicians had understood the real issues at stake, they would never have weakened Christian Germany (Austria) after the War, nor allowed pagan Prussia again to become strong. He foresaw that Naziism and Bolshevism would get together. "If or when the New Germany moves one inch towards infringing on the present ancient frontiers...