Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Author Flandrau nevertheless found conforming difficult. Editors lured him with attractive offers. The best of Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic...
...above the baying of the pack. Davis and his neighbors, plain, silent men, trained dogs for more fashionable hunters, let the hounds race nightly but never killed a fox. When Jacob Terry put up a fence that endangered the dogs, the old men quarreled, but Spring Davis' son nevertheless continued to make love to Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went to jail. Bugle Ann's collar and bones were found far away, making it clear that Terry had not killed the animal. Suddenly...
...word of this would Secretary of Agriculture Wallace publicly admit. Nevertheless decreased consumption sharpened to a painful point the first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for 1935 given out the following day by Secretary Wallace's department. Forecast was a production of 11,800,000 bales. That estimate was well under the big crops of the late 1920's, but it was 2,100,000 bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion...
...dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations, she pretended to understand, thinking as she had in school, "I'll get it all explained to me after class." Confused and uncertain in the presence of radio experts, she was nevertheless gratified that her family looked impressed even when she told them, in technical language, of howling blunders she had committed. As the Lindberghs started for the frozen North, someone in the Morrow family gave her a handkerchief, saying thoughtfully, "You will probably need an extra one, you know...
During hot debate in both Houses, such foes of the act as Winston Churchill charged that His Majesty's Government put "disgraceful pressure" upon India's princes, "amounting to blackmail in some cases," to force their agreement. Nevertheless the bill was steamrollered through by bland Secretary for India Sir Samuel Hoare, just before his promotion to be Foreign Secretary (TIME, June...