Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley and Adams to bring about the game. When they failed, persuasive Mr. Whalen journeyed to Annapolis and West Point, somehow managed to get the superintendent of each institution to drop his grievance...
...Grand Old Party, to which by nature and heredity he is naturally affiliated, when Professor Lake broke his nerve and his enthusiasm. In one brief digression, the dauntless archaeologist hewed the democratic system in pieces before the Lord. It seems that Saul. sensing that the Lord was somehow not at home, resorted to the time-honored method of casting lots to determine the guilty. This expedient, declared Professor Lake, has its modern counterpart in the casting of votes, whereby a question can be easily settled by taking the opinions of all those who know nothing about it Upon which...
Though he was flabbergasted at the turn of events. Secretary Stimson saw a ray of hope in Ambassador Morgan's friendly relations with the new junta. Perhaps by a neat diplomatic formula the junta could somehow be construed as a perfectly legal continuation of the Luis government and therefore not require fresh recognition...
...that if Saul had his characteristics he (Saul) would be an extraordinary person, more particularly a better husband to his wife. So one night when Marvin and a friend were cracking a safe, Marvin shot and killed the master of the house. Executed in the electric chair, Marvin somehow managed to transfer his soul to Saul, who thereupon became possessed not only of strength but of sensibilities...
...Bethune's job is: 1) to convince manufacturers that the U. S. tariff wall is not so high an obstacle to their exports as they think; 2) somehow to secure from them private information on their production costs which the Tariff Commission may use to make the wall lower or higher...