Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan. Here 500 owners of Florida property banded into the Florida Property Owners Association to combat false propaganda against Florida, to concentrate information about their land troubles; above all to manage somehow to get extensions on their mortgages and reductions on their interest rates...
Puppets (Milton Sills). It looks as though the wounds of war would never heal for the movies-now that The Big Parade has made so much money. There is a shell hole scene in this one, too. Somehow no one has recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention...
Horse races are run every day; baseball goes perpetually on; of tennis and golf there is no end. How is the sporting journalist to find new words to tell of these things? It is an impossible task, yet, somehow, the better members of the newspaper trade manage it. When they fail, their failure is usually confined to an inside page. But last week, in a two column story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon...
...question remains-how came that tube of Pepsodent, and not another tube, to your bathroom shelf? It got there, obviously, because somehow Lord & Thomas had at least made you suspect that of all toothpastes Pepsodent is the one most imperative to your health and happiness. You may not remember but somewhere you read that you had a film on your teeth and that gritty Pepsodent was the thing which would polish that film away...
That film-on-teeth suggestion that Lord & Thomas somehow conveyed to you is one example of so-called "reason why" copy. A "reason why" advanced for the makers of Dr. Forhan's toothpaste is that four out of five unfortunates develop a dread gum-disease through failure to use this preventive...