Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright revealed in his preface. But most of the playgoers had no preface to guide them and laugh as hard as they would they couldn't make heads or tails of it all. Oh, it was very funny, and quite too cynical for words, but somehow just what it meant the audience couldn't decide. They stood around in wavering little circles in the lobby between the first and second acts and tugged at friends' coat-tails and squeaked "What do you think this is all about?" And the friends squeaked back, "I don't know, I'm sure...
...right, according to their lights, and that is why the cinema and Michael Arlen fatten and flourish. The Wisdom Tooth is probably for a few people. These few will go over and over again, perhaps introducing certain of their dependable friends. Then, if they can sell the balcony seats somehow, the piece will...
There is no sign of play-acting in the graceful movements of the Polynesians. Their skins are brown and smooth; litheness and strength and daring. The shutter has caught them working, laughing, and idling the sunny hours away. One feels somehow that they have never known dissatisfaction and worry, that they have never grown up. But see the picture, before we tell you too much about...
Friends smuggled them out, somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...
...court stenographer in Manhattan. At 23 he was acting as principal of a preparatory school. Entering the service of the state through a minor post-office job, he somehow became stenographer to President Cleveland in his 33rd year. President McKinley made him his Assistant Secretary. President Roosevelt appointed him the first Secretary in his newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. Two years later he became Postmaster General, and at the end of another two years he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. During the latter part of his cabinet career, the great corporations which he now heads recognized...