Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangely, the parking ban suggests that somehow the scooters parked on Mill Street between Mather and McKinlock do not disturb the peaceful silence of the evening. Present plans do not, but should, correct the annoying scooter noise in this area...
...Hitler Germany's greatest stars, "Lisl" Bergner fled the country in 1933, scored a series of brilliant U.S. and British stage and screen successes (Stolen Life, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Escape Me Never, Catherine the Great). But in the years just after the war, the Hollywood magic somehow gave out; Bergner appeared in a succession of stage flops, finally retired to London with her husband. Film Producer Paul Czinner. Last week's performance proved that her retirement had been premature...
There is no doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology, which might remark on the extraordinary tolerance of Casanova's era, nor 20th century psychology, which might speculate about the libertine's compulsion "to prove something," really equips the reader to understand Casanova...
...historic address on his seventieth anniversary on October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...
While he realized that he had somehow acquired a "phonographic" memory, Vag wondered if there might not be some bugs in its operation. After putting himself through a few exercises such as, "Name all the members of the Kingston Trio" and "List the titles of Eliot's Four Quartets," Vag was assured of his competency...