Word: anyhow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word of Spanish, he wouldn't know what President Cardenas was saying anyhow, and turned up beaming in the diplomatic...
...himself another librettist acceptable to the German authorities. In reply to Librettist Zweig's suggestion, white-haired Strauss wrote a long letter. In it he expressed his contempt for the Nazis, and his hunch that by the time the opera was completed they would be out of power anyhow. The letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other prominent Nazi disciplinarians boiled with rage, Composer Strauss went quietly on with his work. But when...
...last, heavy-lidded, questioning look of a dying patient proved more than young Dr. Joseph Martin Swindt could bear. Like many a conscientious general practitioner, he believed he had made a faulty diagnosis. He never wanted to be a doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when...
...down on the pepper, think you should print more boosts in your Letters column and less comment from subscribers who knew that John Doe was born on Thursday in a corn crib and not Wednesday in a corn field, those hecklers aren't funny anyhow...
...belonging to the Stock Exchange. Mr. Morgan made three answers, pausing between each for reflection: "Well," he said at first, "I would not have carried the facts to the Exchange authorities if I understood the authorities knew them all and understood them." Then he added: "I should say not, anyhow." Finally he said flatly...