Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somehow or other the little boy who is such a humdinger at marbles must let the other little boys have marbles wherewith to play, thinks Banker Wiggin. On the defensive last week he snapped: "Normal business conditions will not prevail in the United States until there is purchasing power in Europe." He urged immediate U. S. extension of more credit to European nations, as recommended by his committee...
...simply wasting time!" Also restive was Scandinavia, Sweden suspending gold payments last week "until Nov. 1," Norway "indefinitely," Denmark "until further notice." Last to go off gold last week was Egypt. In London nebulous resentment at the gold standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half...
Acting bolsters The Breadwinner immeasurably, notably the acting of gentle, toothy Mr. Matthews, who somehow suggests the kind old water rat in The Wind in the Willows. When a young man, Mr. Matthews clerked in a London bookstore. One day he learned that at his very desk once toiled the great tragedian Sir Henry Irving. Bookseller Matthews promptly changed his vocation, got a job as call boy at the Princess Theatre. At that show-shop he was given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday...
...life and literature, the forces--commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution--of standardization and mechanization, and the depressing mediocrity of the mob. The world, especially the modern world, is a little too much with him, and it is with the men of whom he writes. One suspects his writing, somehow, of a past full of many themes and reports, where an anxious solemnity has routed levity. Nevertheless, the critique is acute and readable. The stories in the issue show a lighter touch, if less care. Structurally, they are not stories at all, but rather anecdotes, character studies, Mr. Donaldson...
...come to town, feel no need of a change. Then one day in the forest they run into measly little Grosjean and his desirable woman Karin. Both the brothers want Karin but David wants her most, so Charles helps him tie up Grosjean, kidnap the girl. Grosjean pursues them, somehow manages to catch up, shoots Charles. It is a shrewd blow, but Charles recovers. Such is Grosjean's remorse that he is allowed to join the brothers' menage. They drift to Mexico, collect more horses, women, children, a priest. Karin, tired of wandering, wants a house, so they...