Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...droop in discouragement. The lines about his eyes have cut in deeper and those about his mouth have hardened. The round baby-pink face of the 1920's has grown firmer, more mature. Washington has been as cruel to him as to any President in history. And yet somehow, for all the heartbreak that has been his, Mr. Hoover has grown in inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental...
...President next June? "Damn nonsense!" snapped the Ambassador when he reached Chicago. "I'm coming home to take care of my business like every good American should." Despite the fact that his best friends believed that he was without White House motives and ambitions the thought persisted that, somehow, somewhere, "Charley" Dawes would be brought forward as the beneficiary of anti-Hoover sentiment...
...full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed for the occasion...
...never gives a final accounting for the members of the troupe that are left. To be sure, they have been laid low by tomatoes in a theatre too dismal to boast grapefruit; they have lost a hero and heroine to the London stage; and they have lost Jess, but somehow the corporate ghost of "The Good Companions" lives on and is not to be laid without special attention from the playwright. The audience never knows what happens to the old veterans. Instead, the curtain falls on Jess as he starts off for Canada, saw and hammer in hand...
...which are focused on glamour rather than on truth. Mata Hari, brilliantly acted and directed, is no exception. Garbo. in the opinion of her admirers, is the Hollywood Duse, not far inferior to the tragic Eleonora. In this picture her Swedish voice, her awning lashes, her curt gestures are somehow becoming to the abridged and euphemistic story of a Javanese dancer whose real name, according to the best authorities, was Margaret Zelle MacLeod. Good shot: two lighted cigarets in a pitch black room, where Garbo and Novarro are talking...