Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes in the South of the U. S., and last week it made news in Oklahoma...
...central character, lurks a meaning all too true to be dismissed as the talk of a "light woman." She embodies in her philosophy of life much that every modern person has left. Her overpowering self-interest is freely admitted, and despite all opposition to such a characteristic, we somehow excuse it in her. Perhaps it is because she is a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining person in her own right, or because she makes up for it by her frankness and her ability to over shadow this selfishness with her other aimiable qualities, but we cannot condemn her for an instinctive...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...
...separate the question of constitutional interpretation from the irrelevant question of Mr. Justice McReynold's good health. After all, it is only the twisted decisions of a few justices that have established this unnatural connection between the meaning of the Constitution and their continued existence. Unless Mr. Roosevelt can somehow circumvent the consequences of the social prepossessions of several justices, he is forced to wait unhappily for their deaths. Those who would admit a changed constitutional interpretation only when the objectionable judges die really argue for assassination. Sincerely, R. I. Bishop...
Tense, animated, but somehow casual, Fuller said that in his Junior year he tired of college and as a way to pass the time as painlessly as possible, started writing. Without reference to other books, he decided to "write on something I knew about . . . not life...