Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been for Mother Suré and her genius for taking infinite pains to make ends meet somehow, their poverty would have been more unbearable than it was. When the eldest son saved his pennies and emigrated to the U. S., the Zlotniks regarded him as an emissary sent to spy out the land, waited proudly for his summons to follow him. The summons came when he had been in Manhattan long enough to earn an instalment on their steamship tickets...
...present condition to that of a U. S. defeated in war, imagining California and Arizona given back to Mexico; Washington given back to British Columbia; Florida returned to Spain. Then: ". . . we would not be willing to rest content under such an outrage and . . . we would take means somehow, someday to rectify that injustice either through peaceful measures or through...
...brother Charles Taft. Roosevelt resented this division, never answered the letter. Roosevelt continued to feel that Taft had betrayed his policies. One day President Taft with tears in his eyes said to Major Butt: "Archie, I don't see what I could have done to make things different. Somehow people have convinced the Colonel I've gone back on him. It distresses me more deeply than anyone can know to think of him sitting there at Oyster Bay alone and feeling himself deserted...
...Hoover Administration than any other friend of the President. He was violently speculated upon for almost every post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip as a leading candidate for membership. But, somehow, Mr. Robinson never seemed able to swing into a niche. Last week, however, the President did fit him neatly into the National Drought Commission...
Twenty miles north of Chicago, at Ravinia, another music-loving tycoon faced another deficit: Louis Eckstein, whose summer opera avocation is almost vocation. Like Mr. Insull, Mr. Eckstein did not gloom. The summer's $200,000 loss will be made up somehow. Last year he and Mrs. Eckstein went into their own pockets for $97,000 of a $217,000 deficit. Said he last week: "I merely consider it my contribution to summer culture...