Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods! It is no disgrace in the United States...
...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...
That the U.S. farmer's gross income increased somewhat in the past year...
...getting base. These ideas, and his trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
...stock with a Sinclair-Prairie consolidation in mind, or whether his purchase represents only a characteristic bullish point of view on oils, is a question upon which one man's opinion is as good as any other man's-except Mr. Cutten's. The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that Mr. Cutten has arrived at the position in which any stock that he buys is automatically skyrocketed by his buying...