Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Financing. At Rome Dictator Mussolini watched the sale in Manhattan last week of $30,000,000 City of Rome bonds. He wants the money to accomplish his housing schemes and to finance some public utilities. (The U. S. has loaned somewhat more than a billion dollars during each of the past four years to foreign governments, municipalities, industries. Last week the cities of Milan, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade were preparing specifications for U. S. loans...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...
...story of Tristram and Isolt--of all medieval stories--seems modern imagination. Wagner, Swinburne, Hardy, and Belloc have all retold it, each changing it somewhat to suit his own purposes, but treating it always for what it is--one of the greatest love stories in the world. And now that such an important poet as Mr. Robinson, in the third of his Arthurian poems, has retold it once again, it is a matter of considerable interest to see with what success he has done...
...Merlin" and "Lancelot", the chief emphasis is put upon the passionate and destructive love that burns his characters to ashes; and he has made every effort to make that love as real to his twentieth century readers as it was to Tristram and Isolt themselves. He has somewhat altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency to explain. And in other matters Mr. Robinson has altered his material for his own purposes. In the twelfth century version Isolt...
...Haring, in Emerson D at 10 o'clock. For the Vagabond who is further inclined in the study of History, "The Rise of Big Business", will be explained in detail by Professor Schlesinger in New Lecture Hall at 11 o'clock. At this stage of the morning, the Vagabond, somewhat enervated from his strenuous note taking and ardent listening, may rest, looking ahead with anticipation to the advent of evening, when he may listen enraptured, to the annual Sanders Theatre Concert of the Glee Club, to begin at 8 o'clock. Here he will hear, among other charming renditions, Gluck...