Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touching tribute--this gallant Jersey gesture. Somehow when the world seems blue and clouds are gray and everything is in accordance with the best traditions of Irving Berlin, then it is pleasantly enervating to be showered with fulsome praise. Life, after all, is worth living and one can arise in the morning, or whenever one is accustomed to arise, with the feeling that there is something left--not much, but something. And if there is a slight miscalculation on the part of Princeton--no harm at all is done, for, as the Gilbert and Sullivan gendarmes sing...
...worried about Rita. He was sure that Solomon O'Cabot was his rival and on the fair way to be a successful one. He would ask good old John; John somehow knew about such things...
...uncontradicted version of his letter: "All our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States. . . ." Last week Mr. Mellon said he had written: "All our principal debtors except Great Britain are already, etc." The words "except Great Britain" had somehow been "inadvertently omitted...
...Near the Bayou des Glaizes Hills, La., a plantation owner had somehow secured a circus tent, into which flocked all on his plantation and neighboring refugees...
...Somehow or other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised...