Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger who dropped in on a Buchman soul-washing session might fancy that he had somehow gotten into the Sultan's palace on one of the Thousand and One Nights. But if the harsh outsider should remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the psychologists exhibitionism, or if anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot...
...merely blessings but hints were showered upon Ambassador Mellon's hoary head all week, for England hoped that somehow he would influence President Hoover to attempt cancellation of Reparations and War Debts at once. At the welcoming dinner of The Pilgrims, Edward of Wales put the nation's hope thus: "I cannot help feeling that the presence of Mr. Mellon in London can be of the greatest assistance ... for the advice he can give America of European conditions...
...story of a French soldier who has killed his German in the trenches and who goes to Germany after the war to find the dead boy's parents. He doesn't know why he wants to see them; but he feels that somehow his crime must be expiated. The real argument of the play begins as the young Frenchman (Mr. Phillips Holmes) finds himself received into the family as the dead man's friend. He cannot tell them the truth. He stays on, and by degrees becomes as a new son to them. He becomes indeed the new living center...
...body crouches and bends and his chunky arms thrash the air. He is one of the best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand-outs to abolish poverty. He is sincere, earnest, hard-hitting, but even his legislative foes do not call him unfair. His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself...
Happy Landing, Well aware of the risks, skill, and courage involved in flying, some theatregoers may be embarrassed to hear a group of greasepainted actors chatter knowingly about "low ceilings," "take offs'' and "happy landings." That argot, one somehow feels, should be indulged in only by the aviation fraternity if & when it chooses...