Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unpalatable both to the Government and to the powerful interests that support the present administration. The Prince of Wales is distinctly unpopular with the mine owners. Something like consternation has been caused among them at what the Prince revealed on his tour. It is a serious coincidence that almost before the Prince returned to London a regular newspaper barrage was laid down [by the Conservatives] with a view to discounting as far as possible the facts as to the condition of the miners that were put under the searchlight of the Prince's inquiry...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...Einstein are cousins. March 14 he will be 50 years old. She is almost that age. Ten years ago they married, after previous marriages and divorces. She is a levelheaded, practical woman who finds her philosophizing husband no nuisance. Said she of him some time ago: "Professor Einstein is not eccentric. He wears stiff collars when the occasion demands it without protest. He hardly ever mislays things. At least, not more than most men. He knows when it's time for lunch and dinner...
...hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...
...long been the foremost patron of education in the almost feudally du Pont state of Delaware and brother Pierre is reputed to have wanted to retire from active business before the du Fonts ever bought into G. M. C. Moreover, it is a du Pont tradition for elders to make way for juniors. T. Coleman (elder cousin), Pierre, Irenee and Lammot were successive presidents of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...