Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, if this is so, and Dean Lobdell should know whereof he speaks, the campus at least more accurately and with greater fidelity imitates the screen than the screen recreates the campus, since film views of the academic life have usually been more comical than representative. But somehow it is hard to visualize the bright young men of New Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts...
Millions of farmers helped to vote Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the Presidency in the belief that somehow he would put money into their empty pockets. This belief grew out of Governor Roosevelt's reiterated campaign promise to "restore the purchasing power of Agriculture." But the President-elect was wary never to tie himself up tight to any specific relief plan. His intention is to call all important farm leaders, spokesmen, organizers and agitators to the White House after March 4 and keep them there until they agree among themselves upon a legislative program for him to sponsor. The makings...
Mild, abject Indians who somehow managed to spring bewildering surprises on both the First and the Second Indian Round Table Conference, managed to spring a few more last week, as dignified Scot MacDonald opened what he called, with characteristic optimism, "The Third and Final Conference...
...Irving Langmuir at 51 remains inquisitive. His current scientific fun is to study the formation of ice on Lake George, N. Y. where he has a camp. Somehow wintertime always fascinated him. He learned to ski and sail-skate in Switzerland, has skiied throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks, climbed Mounts Washington and Marcy on skiis...
...been accomplished only by that scowling, heavy-jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...