Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such moments are well utilized by Constance Bennett, who struggles through the rest of it as well as she can. Typical shot: the servant girl's baby in its mother's arms in court...
...imagine. Whenever he comes among us it is done so quietly and unostentatiously that-to be Irish -we do not know he is there until after he has gone-and then we feel a sense of something having happened-the unconscious influence of a strong personality and character which somehow makes itself felt without words. Tireless and conscientious in the fulfillment of his many arduous duties all over the country, he is yet accessible to the humblest employe of the Bureau. . . . If General Hines leaves us, as a result of the new combination we shall certainly regret...
...Bamberger, a bricklayer, yanked the door open, rushed wide-eyed away. Reporters dashed through the open door, heard the majority of the scientists declare that the babies had been properly labeled at the lying-in hospital? but somehow switched as the mothers returned to their homes. The decision pleased Mr. Watkins. It was just what he had been saying...
...will be a sort of operatic verse, or a sort of loose blank verse, in that the words may be sung." It will not be in the grand style of Wagnerian music-drama. Composer Taylor started work with a Wagner-type opera in mind, but found the German form somehow did not naturally evolve. Was it especially "American?" he was asked. Replied he: "Perhaps some of the rhythm might be deemed so, but that is for the critics. However, I wasn't attempting to make it such...
Result: Private traders still seem to be able to get fresh vegetables and meats somehow, and breakdown of the Co-operative food distribution system has forced more and more proletarians to "buy private." Naturally the private traders have raised their prices, "thieves and robbers that they are," as any proletarian will tell...