Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing to find "atmosphere" handled with so much skill that it does not appear to be obvious "literary effort." In addition to this story, is another very acceptable one by George C. Heck, Jr. One might wish that he had not ended it quite so abruptly, but it is, nevertheless, a very enjoyable tale. A delightful bit of nonsense, "The Ring and the Booklet" by Philip Nicholas, Jr., and the second instalment of the gruesome "Murder in 'B' Entry" complete the fiction of the number...
...completely satisfied with the usual program of shreds and patches. The Pops are hardly ready to take rank as a continuation of the regular orchestral season, and after all, it is natural that musical taste should approve a somewhat lighter fare in the spring than in the winter. Nevertheless, the complete renunciation of the most thoughtful music in favor of five-minute overtures has received a check, and the result promises still better balanced programs for May and June...
...President's sharpest critics agreed that he had showed courage. His best friends, however, said that he would have undermined the G. O. P.'s chief bulwarks if he had done otherwise. They said it was by no means Hobson's choice. Nevertheless, forces were so balanced that none could suspect President Coolidge of departing from the convictions he expressed last year...
...hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn governess the jewel would never have been found, glinting in the woolen tassel of a castaway...
Generally praiseworthy as the productions of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott have been, nevertheless the architectural worth of some of their Harvard buildings is a controversial subject...