Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the weather makes national news, a place called Hell, Mich, is likely to get into it somehow. Last winter editors were not above informing their readers that Hell had frozen over. In the midst of last week's heat wave the Associated Press supplied its members with an item to the effect that Hell was fairly roasting...
Between Senator Borah and the deep sea was William Allen White, the Landon representative on the Resolutions Committee. The Landonites wished to placate Mr. Borah, lest he somehow upset their well-laid nomination plans. Well did they know how to proceed. Since Senator Borah, for all his noble traits of character, would never willingly become a member of the Twelve Apostles or of any group larger than one, he could be won to Landon only by giving him some unique privilege. That privilege was to speak with ultimate authority on those planks which most appealed...
Friends of the new Finance Minister said that his mind seemed fastened last week on the notion that, since some 45 billion paper and gold francs are supposed to have been tucked away by French "hoarders," somehow or other the Blum Cabinet can get these billions back into circulation "partly by threats" and thus avoid the necessity for devaluation-all this sounding last week to most of the world's fiscal experts like gibberish clear to no one except M. Vincent Auriol...
...meanwhile, was rolling slowly down the African Coast. She went aground on Capo Blanco. The crew went ashore for assistance, returned to find thieves had stolen all their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
Katherine and Murry had a hard time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their intimacy with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, who were exciting but impossible to live with. Once Katherine left Murry for another man with whom she thought she was in love. Murry says he was not jealous, knew she would come back. She did, but their good days together were over...