Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near midnight on Nov. 3, I disgustedly turned off my radio and sat down to write my weekly column called "Hangovers" for my weekly country newspaper. The first words I set down were "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." I realized immediately that the wisecrack was so obvious that it was scarcely worth printing, but I let it ride because I could think of nothing better...
...paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry that Mme Mathis was wearing. The jewels dug into her neck and she screamed. Furiously M. Mathis, who is 52 and does setting up exercises every morning, made a dive at the robbers. All three fell into the street and rolled...
This was not to say that no correspondent had succeeded last week in establishing sound news pipelines into the Rothschild Castle, but it was to say that as yet 95% of stories printed about the Duke of Windsor were obvious, blatant fakes. They unmasked to some hitherto naive editors the whole Vienna school of whipped-cream journalism, and (which will prove much more expensive) they unmasked it to the world public as well. Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery...
...foremost learned commentator on sex, was the following limited press interview: "I have always had the opinion, due to Edwards's quite boyish appearance, that he is in some way different from most other men, but not in any way known to me. But to me it is obvious. A man slightly different from most men-and I think that is a reasonable assumption in his case-has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII "not necessarily in a pathological sense or anything like that"-appeared to consider him simply...
...ransom asked, however, was not money. The Young Marshal asked, with the obvious motive of Chinese filial piety, and perhaps with other motives too, that the Chinese Cabinet pay the ransom of declaring war on Japan "immediately," and introducing these "reforms...