Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched...
...lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays the part in a manner agreeable but somewhat anachronistic. The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, is the same that played successfully in London, including Yvonne Arnaud, excellent as the wife. Pepys is pronounced in the play as it was by the diarist himself, "Peeps...
...students being called by friends, but was never called himself until he went out under his own window and shouted his own name, is a story based on tragi-comic fact. The story spread quickly; its pathetic aspects were soon forgotten, its humor remembered; finally its very origin became somewhat obscure. Many are the vociferous young men who make hideous the soft spring evenings without knowing why they do so, without realizing why the syllables of "Rinehart" should be echoing from Holworthy to Grays...
...Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed the practice somewhat. But, notably at Nancy, France, hypnotism continued in operating rooms...
...Readers in his series, remained a shadowy figure to his multitudinous public; for his death in 1873 no literary reviews, no editorial pages were boxed in heavy black. He remained, even to the urchins who pursed small mouths and whistled or gargled the words of his wan fables, a somewhat severe shade, one to be kept properly prisoned in the dusty darkness of a schoolroom desk. The urchins, now grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey...