Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shyness and big tips, no reporter was permitted to talk to Mr. Cuse, his wife, ten-year-old son or maid. Photographers had to be content with his physical description given by apartment attendants: medium height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though he kept himself, the "Jersey Zaharoff" was nevertheless well represented in print by statements handed out during the week at his office. To Roosevelt's threat of new legislation, Mr. Cuse had these firm and practical last words: "Whatever new laws may be passed in the future, the fact remains that my company has purchased commercial airplanes...
...last week people were suffering sore throats, fever, aching eyes, back pains. They went home, stayed in bed two or three days, felt better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
...Gilbert Miller, producer). In 1907 Henry Bernstein's first Broadway production, The Thief, featured the late Kyrle Bellew, ran for nine months. His Melo, presented in 1931, gave Basil Rathbone two months' employment. Never the author of a distinguished play, Henry Bernstein in his native France is nevertheless a distinguished playwright, an able literary psychologist, a sensitive observer, a careful craftsman. It takes a little something more, however, to make a good play, and that, unanimously decided Manhattan reviewers, is what Promise...
...President Eliot, Phillips Brooks, and by other members of the Board of Preachers. He was fond of saying that there was no such thing as a "compulsory prayer," and he derived great satisfaction from the fact that attendance at Morning Prayers, though availed of by comparatively small numbers, nevertheless constituted the largest voluntary daily attendance at a Protestant religious service to be found anywhere in the world. As another function of the Plummer Professorship Professor Peabody was largely concerned, after the death of Phillips Brooks, with the planning and erection of Phillips Brooks House and with the organization...
...Supreme Court for an opinion on the question of whether or not it was ethical for a judge to give legal advice "in connection with a publicity medium." For Chase & Sanborn other lawyers argued that the broadcast was "humane'' and a "great system of public education." Nevertheless, the justices of the Appellate Division frowned heavily on the Good Will Court last week. They ordered all New York State lawyers henceforth to stay out of Chase & Sanborn's court...