Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed pretty sure to be Temple IV of California or Peggy Wee of Long Island. At the start Peggy Wee was over the line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth?winning first place with 98 points...
Huey Pearce Long, Governor of Louisiana and its next new Senator, whose inquisitorial tactics have made him many enemies throughout his State, somehow got hold of Dr. Ochsner's confidential letter. Governor Long is ex-officio an administrator of Charity Hospital. As such he last month conducted a secret "trial" of Dr. Ochsner. Medical administrators of the hospital pleaded for the culprit, called his letter indiscreet, declared that "severe action would annihilate him." But hard-bitten little Governor Long said: "I have given Tulane University everything when asked for and have been complimented for what I have done...
...been so many years since ukuleles and hula dancing were introduced to the U. S. that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein...
...months. Following close upon the heels of "The Dawn Patrol", "Hell's Angels" has at last made its appearance with still larger adjectives and longer superlatives ringing forth in its praise from the publicity department. Not the least impressive of the much heralded features of this picture is that somehow or other the director, Howard Hughes, managed to spend some four millon dollars in the production, which ought to guarantee something stupendous at any rate: The point omitted, however, is how much was paid for the story. For while a story is essential to bind the film together, it seems...
...manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...