Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard which seemed destined to go through for a touchdown. To the amazement of every one on the Harvard side Ver Wiebe was withdrawn when the ball reached Yale's 20 yard line and V.P. Kennard '09 was sent in to kick a goal from the field from a somewhat difficult angle...
...maiming of a halfback and the thums-down plebeian of the Rome of Caligula. There is less between the Park Avenue matron in sables, emeralds and satin and the Rhine countess who wore at dance festivals the plunder of there unguarded trade routes. The stadium seems, however, somewhat more than a link between the varied ages and concession to the gregarious instinct. It is for those Americans who have diminished interest in the ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome...
Argentinians felt closer to Europe than usual, when the not yet officially open short wave radio-telephone station at Buenos Aires was placed at the disposal of a somewhat sick and very wealthy woman who desired to consult her physician in Berlin "about a private illness." After a 20-minute conversation, she emerged beaming, reassured. Gallant reporters concealed her identity...
...acting in Hotbed is enough to make it somewhat exciting. William Ingersoll is the bad goodman, Alison Bradshaw his daughter, and Richard Stevenson the assistant professor detected in a process of seduction...
...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...