Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambassador to the U.S., Sir Oliver Franks, arrived in Washington last week, he expressed the customary sentiments about happy relations between the two countries. The sunny platitudes, however, were clouded by two facts. For one thing, Lulu, the Frankses' cherished family cat, was missing-it had somehow disappeared during the crossing, and was still missing when the Franks disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth. For another thing, U.S.-British relations had suddenly become anything but happy. Said one responsible Briton last week: "President Truman has antagonized our Foreign Office more completely than any American since Andrew Jackson...
...French press, which somehow got all the details, had a field day. Headlined the Paris Liberation: SACHA GUITRY EXECUTED BY RIDICULE. Said Sacha: "This is a veritable scandal...
...another occasion . . . Cole went to the British Museum and somehow procured some ancient ecclesiastical vestments. Dressed in these robes, and taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...
Together they launched a monthly paper, the Catholic Worker, and opened a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan's tough and dirty lower East Side, where anyone that came could be fed, clothed and sheltered as long as there was anything to share. Money would somehow be provided, they felt. When the first issue of the Worker came off the press, the editors had 92? amongst them...
River Lady (Universal-International) is a solid little "sleeper" in a solid set of Technicolor pajamas. The studio seems to have intended making just another Yvonne de Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree...