Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authoress a best seller. I mean, a writer of the well-read books. I mean, he will give anything for more of my thoughts, because they seem to have intreeged the interest of people that pay for literature. And since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married girl who is wealthy enough to have the home life carried on by the servants ought to have a career...
...moment, however, the reduction of prices, or rather, the act making it possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators...
...powerful local ma-chine ; it was a praiseworthy attempt in the face of almost certain defeat; it was a defeat, not at the hands of Favorite Son Watson alone, but of all other G. O. P. Candidates combined, "The Allies" as they are called, including sly-dog Dawes, Coolidge-anyway and Uninstruction...
...chagrin. Her temple was burned; her worshippers vowed they had suffered enough of her whims, and would choose themselves "a grave and reasonable man-god." Such is the pliability of human nature, that they soon built her a grander temple, while they chanted that virginity is silly anyway. Linus married the offspring that had caused the disturbance. "Little she knew then or afterwards, that Linus was her own father. And- strange are the ways of half-gods-little would she have cared, had she known it." For, blissfully mated, they lived as king and queen, inventing all manner of pleasantries...
...teach you, just get it off your chests and I'll try to wise you up. . . . You boys look all right to me. Talking straight, I hope you like me. Still, if you don't, what the hell! You don't vote in Newburyport, anyway...