Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore, Roy Hall, 21, who was washed overboard last November when a North Atlantic gale hit the S. S. Cold Harbor, walked into the U. S. Shipping Commissioner's office to contradict the official report of his death. He had somehow been spotted by the crew of the British freighter Maidenhead after swimming out the gale for two days...
...duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute and abstracted gesture which somehow makes hugely eloquent his character's total dimwittedness...
...starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last year's General Strike...
Wartime was normal life to Lilo Linke and her contemporaries. Substitute food, standing in line, semi-starvation were more exciting than dreadful. Every day brought some change, some new restriction to be got around somehow. What she principally minded were her ragged clothes. Adolescence and the Armistice made her more aware of events. By the time street-fighting started outside her own Berlin tenement she knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed...
...difficult privilege to be the torch bearer of ordered freedom. I could wish that aircraft had never been invented, but they are here and somehow we have got to Christianize them. . . . The greatest force in the world today for peace is the British Empire...