Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every Saturday night I sit up till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with...
...authorities to comply with the insistent demands of interested undergraduates, and if there are, no shame should attach to giving them public notice. Concealment, rightly or wrongly, always gives the impression that there is something questionable or arbitrary about the concealed. If only to clear the air of a somewhat sultry haze if not as a courtesy to the men affected, the committees responsible would be wise to give out a clear and concise statement of their position...
...distance runs leading a powerful aggregation, 1932 seems to have an excellent chance to overthrow the jinx of the Blue yearling meet. While the Yale Freshmen bowed to Princeton, 73 to 62, last Saturday, the local first year men were trouncing Exeter and setting up some remarkable times, though somewhat aided by the favoring wind conditions of the Academy track
There can be no question as to the merit of Blanche Yurka's production of "The Wild Duck". From start to finish it is admirably set forth. Well cast, well staged, and with somewhat more of real life instilled into it through fine directing than is the lot of most Ibsen plays, it deserves the praise which all those who have seen it have showered upon...