Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was true. The good old Spanish word bandido, meaning bandit, is not quite the same thing. Mexicans have imported the word "gangster," unchanged, into their colloquial speech. The Spanish might do the same; but they are more conservative, linguistically, and anyway this hardly seemed a good time...
...cavernous big-city terminals and at dinky way stations the story had been the same: bored G.I.s and other wartime travelers swarmed over the newsstands like locusts. The magazines did not have to be too good; they sold anyway. They also sold like hot cakes to the forces overseas, and in camps at home. But by last week things were getting back to normal, and many a publisher's wartime boom was going bust...
Ebbing sales gave circulation veterans no alarm. The country's 105,000 newsstands were crowded beyond reason anyway, and survival of the fittest might straighten things out by fall. That would clear the decks for a more exciting war: the coming fight for public favor between the fittest...
Many in the nation had second thoughts. Union labor, as expected, erupted in violent outbursts. Joe Curran vowed he would strike anyway; other unionists used their angriest epithet-"strikebreaker"-against the President...
Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway-a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Producer-Director-Actor-Magician Orson Welles would not be in the Broadway cast, though it had taken all of him to keep the show moving on the road...