Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...until the second Wednesday in February will the Hoover election be officially recorded by the formal counting of the votes of the Electoral College. Nevertheless, early on Nov. 7, Herbert Hoover & family were taken into safe-keeping by the Federal Secret Service. Chief William H. Moran presented himself at Palo Alto to acquaint the Hoovers with his plans for their protection. Two detectives followed the President-elect's first postelection stroll with Mrs. Hoover...
...Author. Born in Boston some 40 years ago, educated conventionally at Harvard, Isaac Goldberg nevertheless displays the versatility characteristic of bright Jews, interested as much in music as in romance? languages he is author of numerous Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" on music and musicians; translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish; authority on Spanish-American literature; biographer of such heterogeneous characters as Havelock Ellis, Mencken, Nathan, and now the Topsy-Turvy Twins...
Indiana. The trip through Indiana was informal but not speechless. There were hatwavings and handshakings at Kankakee and Lafayette. At Indianapolis, the Nominee made a short outdoor speech and visited State Boss Thomas Taggart in a hospital where, unfortunately for the Brown Derby, he has long been confined. Nevertheless, sick Boss Taggart whispered: "You'll win Indiana...
...learn their Christian duties of citizenship. The next year, an uncompleted hotel at Claremont, three miles north of Pomona, was given to the college and the students were assembled. In 1894, 47 students were graduated. It soon became difficult to cling to the ideal of a small college. Nevertheless Pomona firmly shut its doors yearly in the face of all but 750 students. But if there were two colleges? Later, perhaps, three? On the coast of the Pacific another Oxford, a group of autonomous colleges united by a common central organization...