Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somehow this does not seem very substantial when put beside the ferocity of Mr. Sweetser's "September," in which a Junior, unable to return to college for his Senior year because as he succinctly puts it, "The old man's broke," goes slightly berserk at a debutante party where champagne flows in buckets and orates impolitely to his hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points...
...House Chaplain sonorously wound up his opening prayer one forenoon last week, a small frown knit the bushy brows of Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns. The House was being criticized for its slow legislative pace-and somehow he was being held responsible (TIME, April 22). He realized that a crisis was at hand, for two spiced goblets threatened his legislative program: 1) the baseball season was scheduled to open that afternoon in Washington, and 2) members were agitating for a three-day recess over Good Friday...
...from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint that they were forbidden to accept free theatre tickets. He rescinded the order; the strikers went happily back to work. A bitter opponent of the Newspaper Guild today, Lawyer Neylan likes to relate the Call strike episode as somehow illustrating the fallaciousness of a newspaper labor movement...
...advertisements ought to be together all the time, Warner Baxter and Janet Gaynor. We, however, remember Warner Baxter as the dashing Mexican in the cinematic versions of O. Henry's southwest stories, and as the strong man in "The Renegade," and as the rebel in "Broadway Bill," so somehow we feel forced to disagree with all other critics. Despite the fact that the story is very sweet, we like Warner better in a much more masculine role. It is definitely proved that it may be all right for three men to live together as buddies, but if there must...