Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printing-press money. This first test of the Bonus boosters' strength indicated that the House would probably pass the Patman bill and send it to the Senate. In that body 56 Senators-a majority-were said to be lined up against the Bonus. But even should the measure somehow get by Congress an insurmountable veto awaited it at the White House...
...because, long jobless, they had nothing better to do. In camp with their A. E. F. fellows again, they seemed to have revived the old ganging spirit of Army days as an escape from reality. They convinced themselves that they were there to right some vague wrong-a wrong somehow bound up in the fact that the Government had opened its Treasury to banks, railroads and the like but closed it to needy individuals. When the House voted to take up their bill, they slapped one another on the back and were quite sure they would be getting their money...
Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...
...what a nice leech. See how quick it takes. . . . The domestic leech sticks, but it does not absorb. The best leeches come from Germany and Sweden. During the War we could not get German leeches. I imported some Greek leeches, and they were very good too, but somehow I could not feel at home with them. . . . The leech is an epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition was a success, then there...
...port after riding out a "chubasco" (tropical) storm off the Mexican coast. After two days & nights at the wheel the skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes a look at the calendar...