Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when she should have kept them religiously to herself. The stock market crash in 1929 wiped out all his money, and the depression left him without a job. Through it all we could see no waning in his affection for her, even though he turned to drink intermittently, but somehow his wife did. To cap it all, Baxter is persuaded by her confidant-lawyer, to whom she eventually appealed for divorce proceedings, that he has bitterly oppressed his wife by his selfish conduct. Then Baxter, the only logical character in the whole cast, makes the only illogical move...
...mothers who were blessed with daughters seemed to have the boy question firmly under control. Historians tell us that at the beginning of a call a so-called "sparking lamp" was lit. One of these is on exhibition and contained enough oil to burn for fifteen minutes. Historians have somehow neglected to say what happened when the light went...
...imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing...
...over which hangs a photograph of Mr. Farley, she sent in her application for examination. Said she: "I've always loved the Army and wanted to be where the Army was. ... All those on the post are my friends. . . . But I'll have to get another job somehow. I don't know just where...
Last week busy Dr. Miner declared he would work his new American Dental Association duties into his already full life somehow. A. D. A. presidents are expected to do a lot of traveling to keep in touch with the 48 state dental societies and to keep the member's noses glued to dental ideals. Said Dr. Miner: "I hope to break Percy Howe's record when he was president,* of having traveled less than any other A. D. A. president...