Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful a restaurant since Repeal is Jack & Charlie's 21 West 52nd St. Last week Hearstpaper readers were titillated, shocked or disgusted by a six-instalment tale of misconduct between Proprietor Jack Kriendler and Mrs. Dorothy ("Dolly") Gaddess, wife of Socialite-Banker Norris Barrymore Gaddess of Greenwich, Conn. Somehow Hearst's Evening Journal had got hold of the transcript of Husband Gaddess' divorce proceedings, which were heard by a horrified referee in private chambers. It included 443 dictaphone records of telephone conversations between Jack & Mrs. Gaddess. The referee considered them "lewd in thought beyond belief . . . greater evidence...
...English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young man swallows as much of Mr. Norris' misty explanations...
...Like many of his generation. Nicholas has been nearly used up by the War; Hervey is much the stronger of the two. While Nicholas sinks what is left of his money and energy in an antique-furniture shop. Hervey plods along at her jobs of literary secretary and novelist, somehow finds time and heart as well to be mother, friend and lover. The book ends with the preliminary divorce proceedings that will set Hervey and Nicholas free to marry. Long before this she knows that Nicholas can never make her happy; life has taught her to be a realist...
...whipped them in Oklahoma. All they hoped for now was to raise enough food for their growing family. At Walker, Minn, somebody told them about a dried-up lake bottom they might farm. Clyde Cook tried it. He kept his family of five boys and two girls alive somehow until the New Deal came along. Then he went on relief...
...financial situation. Harvard offers in the inter-house athletics a substitute with much merit of its own, and which could be well extended to include many of the features that make the minor sports valuable. Furthermore, the endowment, which both schools of thought believe essential, must begin somehow, and somewhere. It is incidental, yet of some importance, that the slashing done in such a prominent place may help to bring in outside money; and this in turn might well make for the earlier return of those very sports...