Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barrie's Peter Pan, the hungry crocodile that had swallowed an eight-day clock went "tick., tick, tick, tick" loud enough to warn Captain Hook of its approach. The crocodile eventually got him anyway; defeated by Peter Pan, the pirate threw himself into the crocodile's waiting jaws...
...People don't completely collapse. They go on living anyway." [TIME, Dec. 29]. These words, spoken by Bob Taft about the hungry and politically confused peoples of Europe, seem to ... me the most cold, curt and cruel indictment, or better still abandonment, of humanity since Marie Antoinette told the hungry mob, "Let them eat cake...
...celebrity of modern times, was beginning, at 45, to show signs of wear & tear. Week before in Hong Kong (on airline business, he said), he had asked the press to report practically nothing about him at all; now in Tokyo he forbade photographs; but the press went on working anyway...
...impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator-or mediocre, anyway...
...rest assured that nobody has the inside track on it right now," said college publicity director Arthur Sampson at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon. "Up till this morning Bingham hadn't even thought about it, and he won't be back from New York for 10 days anyway," Sampson continued...