Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emperor Hirohito's signing of the Kellogg Treaty (see above) had grave and unexpected results last week. Almost without warning it was announced that the Conservative Cabinet of Baron Giichi Tanaka would resign...
...viewing the future of opera and the concert in the era of sound motion pictures. . . . Wonderful as motion pictures with sound really are ... we must not forget that they can only imitate a human being and not recreate one. . . . However, the radio, the phonograph and the talking picture are almost uncanny in their reproductions. ... I believe [sound pictures] will raise the standard of both. The concert and the opera have always attracted the more discriminating part of the entertainment seeking public and such people will probably become even more discriminating...
...almost equally old, saying: "Have these shoes recobbled and they will last another year...
...formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...
Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...