Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great efforts by the British League of Nations Union to coax down to the station the British Foreign Secretary, well-dressed Captain Anthony Eden, were rewarded to the extent that he sent his tactful private secretary, Mr. Oliver C. Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved...
...town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that, as far as women were concerned, Jimmy was still a somewhat hard case...
...show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres...
...from a hearty "Bon voyage!" wished him by King Edward VIII amid the pomp and gold and scarlet of the second levee of His Majesty's reign at St. James's Palace day before the Queen Mary Ambassador sailed. "A splendid ship!" glowed Ambassador Bingham. "She vibrates somewhat, as all fast ships must, but the Queen Mary is splendid...
...pompous parvenu, Carl Milles was amused last week when a woman, after carefully inspecting his Indian God of Peace, somewhat resentfully asked: "Is that thing made of soapstone...