Word: somewhat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special commendation going to the manner in which Weber's charmingly simple piano forte pieces are worked into the incidental music...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...
...possible political repercussions, rather than the unethical and probably illegal aspects of the measure, which attract attention. Somewhat dormant recently, popular feeling and fears about recovery would be sufficiently whipped into a froth to reenforce Republican sentiment. The two proponents are, indeed, Republicans, but of the insurgent variety and they draw most of their support from the Democratic ranks. The real suggestibility of the measure, if it develops momentum, lies in what position Senator Borah might be forced to take, with his long record of favoring farmers and inflationists...
...TIME-READER IN ENGLAND, WOULD SUGGEST SETTING OF YOUR ARTICLE ON OXFORD GROUP SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT. WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS OXFORD GROUP IS DOING WHAT CHURCH OF CHRIST EXISTS EVERYWHERE TO DO, WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT-A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY...
...Pecheur D'Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...