Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lords is offended by Andy's failure to consult him about Sam's peerage; despite domineering Tom Hogarth, Minister of Munitions; despite gloomy Hasper Clews of the Exchequer, and bitterly disdainful military at the War office. He really accomplishes very little at his ministry beyond somewhat quelling Anglophobia in the French press, dispelling fear of pacifism at home, and tendering a magnificent banquet to an invasion of officious overseas journalists. But he charms the journalists into lusty, emotional cheering. His picture in the press becomes the symbol of Allied optimism. His health is a topic of interest...
...chicken salad', I am certain that no actress of the company will ever offend etiquette by ordering it a second time. Almost without exception, every entertainment we were invited to during the summer, supplied chicken salad among the refreshments. One becomes somewhat of a connoisseur of this dish after consuming it for several months. A little too much seasoning in it after a certain time sufficed to make the whole company irascible...
...Barrymore came to do "Hamlet," the details of the production, his own notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things...
Lord Darling is somewhat of a personage in England: he is a Law Lord, a member of the Imperial Committee of the Privy Council, and he has no small reputation for wit. But has wit should have the good taste to stop short of making speeches which the Canadian press describes as "barbed with shafts against the United States." If there are criticisms to be made, and citizens of both countries realize that there undoubtedly are, they would be better received if addressed directly to the accused person, and not to a friend. The complete isolation which the uninformed Englishman...
THIS play first saw the floodlight as the 1925 Spring production of the University Dramatic Club under the somewhat more exotic name of "The Moon is a Gong." Even though the character of the Girl in the Red Hat did not appeal to some of the patronesses, the University in general received it with enthusiasm. The New York production, under the same director, closed after a short run. It caused much comment, but the box-office, one hears, failed to do its part...