Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imagine. In rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...
Daisy thought Henry did not push himself enough; he was not a good royal mixer. She was always hoping he would be appointed Ambassador to Somewhere or Governor of Something, but somehow he never was. Daisy had troubles of the heart; more than several men were hopelessly in love with her; even the Crown Prince got himself talked about in her connection. At least once she had to write him a letter "full of home truth"; once she got really angry, said that if she were his sovereign she would make him wash his face...
...Department of Justice has been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing a new construction, letting it slip close to bankruptcy and then somehow emerging as its sole owner...
...Somehow the doughty diplomat staggered across the street to Achilles Orphanos' delicatessen store where the alarm was sounded. An ambulance carried the chief representative in the U. S. of the Government of Salvador to the Emergency Hospital where 27 stitches were taken in his head. X-rays showed a fractured skull...
...President was obviously, seriously, troubled about the deficit, which last week rose above the $900,000,000 mark. Plain to him was the necessity of economizing somewhere, somehow. The Army was chosen to be whittled first because it is spending $446,000,000 this year, will spend $450,000,000 next year. What the President wanted to see was 10% shaved off all military activities without impairing the Army's efficiency or jeopardizing national defense. After the men in the closed room had tussled alone with figures, the President went back to their conference, was told that reductions were...