Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton team, so feeble that the statistics of its attack for the whole game showed a net loss of 4 yd., somehow held Michigan to three touchdowns...
...daughter. The little old lady was Ida Mayfield Wood, whose husband, Col. Benjamin Wood, brother of onetime Mayor Fernando Wood of Manhattan, had died the year before. Col. Wood had been publisher of the New York Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news and somehow managed to earn $100,000 a year. Since her husband's death Mrs. Wood had edited the sheet from her apartment, sending and receiving proofs through a specially built pneumatic tube. She kept a strict eye on the accounts, too, and reputedly spent hours cutting open used envelopes which...
...Army game is one game we are out to win. There is no use being sophisticated about it. If necessary, students should resort to ways and means of banishing the sophistication. Good results were attained somehow in Chicago. They need to be attained again...
...prologue in a Parisian cafe fails somehow to impress one with the ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
Payment Deferred. William Marble did not know how he was going to make ends meet. He had a job in the foreign exchange department of a London bank and a wife and a daughter. Somehow the yawning abyss of inevitable paupery which gaped between his small salary and his household expenses grew wider & wider. Soon one of his creditors would complain to the bank and then nothing would be left for him but the Poor House. Into this unhappy scene, unexpectedly, comes a forgotten nephew from Australia. He is fairly prosperous, alone in the world. When Mr. Marble plunges instantly...