Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing reductions in the size of the student body, of their audiences, and of their till receipts throughout the wartime period, the Harvard Dramatic Club nevertheless put up a brave fight for survival. They produced such plays as "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Misanthrope." Now on the docket for spring production is Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset...
...House of Commons, still quivering over a woman who had dared to appear in the visitors' gallery wearing purple slacks and bright green shoes, nevertheless decided to condone such costumes. Reasoned the M.P.s: the Government had encouraged slack-wearing during the war; it was scarcely fair to apply narrower standards to visitors who come "to listen to our debates...
...bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
...drain has only begun. The veterans of World War II may ultimately number 16,000,000. World War II's huge omnibus program made all former veterans legislation look like nickel jitney rides. Deeply aware of their obligations, nevertheless U.S. taxpayers had reason to feel misgivings, as the nation embarked on the most far-reaching veterans program in history. How long, it might well ask itself, does a war last...
...they were, their actions remained incomprehensible. "I have knew mens," said Berenice, "to fall in love with girls so ugly that you wonder if their eyes is straight. . . . I have knew womens to love veritable Satans and thank Jesus when they put their split hooves over the threshold." Nevertheless, Berenice decided: "What you ought to begin thinking about is a beau. . . . A nice little white boy beau." "What would I do with one?" demanded F. Jasmine. "Do, Foolish? Why, make him treat you to the picture show. For one thing...