Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where do most Senators go from the Senate? People often wonder. Some, of course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks...
This course of Sunday afternoon talks, founded three years ago under the auspices of the graduate Schools Society as a regular extra-curricular course, has been continued in a somewhat modified form during the past two winters, and has proved very popular...
...deity made Metabel crawl into the bruised tangle of branches so that when Joseph found her there he would think the top part of the tree had fallen on her. There was a thunder storm that night, and Musket, who was an old dog and had just had a somewhat exhausting love affair, was annoyed at having to sniff about the damp slippery woods all night. In the morning Joseph found Metabel and promised that he would not cut down any more ash trees. He even kissed...
...Lampoon's epigrammatist has been growing somewhat reflective of late but now that a new tree, an elm in fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon...
...very fond of Mr. Morley that you think you would not mind seeing Mr. Morley somewhat diluted, go see "Pleased to Meet...