Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that if I were to address you in person I should...
...Soviet airport, after another delay, a polite, bemedaled Soviet officer handed them their "passports." They were alarmed to find that the Archbishop's read "Soviet citizen Alexander Nemolowsky . . . returning to the fatherland." But the Archbishop insisted that they must go on anyway...
...Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...
Gloomily President Schwartz contemplated junking the C.A. & E. Said he: "It may be the only solution. Some of the bondholders wanted to liquidate rather than reorganize, anyway. Maybe we should have done...
...turned away when the group scrapes itself together again at seven o'clock next Thursday evening. At present they have been unable to find a regular meeting place safe from the unsympathetic ears of Harvardian philistines, but the plan is to meet at Lowell B-11 Thursday night anyway in the hopes that somebody will crash through. Prospective hot artists should not stay away because of fears of getting involved in a time consuming project. This is not an association of eager beavers or of people who consider themselves well enough off to spare more than a couple of hours...