Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logic of the situation would be powerfully against Mr. Hoover were it not for the fact that the opposition to him is uncertain and somewhat divided...
...pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants him to; "She don't know what she's getting!" is his sardonic curtain line for this compact, severe, if somewhat unconvincing little play...
...issue is with one of Blackburn's sketches depicting an incident of Harvard Club life which is so like an illustration in a recent New Yorker as to seem almost plagiaristic. Detailed comparison will show that it is not too close for safety, but the impression it creates is somewhat unhappy...
From many, many mouths has come the plaint that Harvard takes things of the intellect too seriously, to the exclusion of the collegiate heroism of romance. The charge has gone unanswered, while Harvard continued on its path. Erring the University may be; but one feels somewhat less inclined to subscribe to such a belief, as time brings no great disapproval of her methods, but rather an access of those once doubting...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...