Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are times when the proceedings bog down to a somewhat tiring trot, but in general the situation are amply amusing. Barbara Brown has taken over Miss Gladys George's role and does it up in generous fashion. She coos, whimpers, dramatizes, wiggles, and occasionally slips into a very amusing deep-toned vulgarity of speech. Her language is not sufficiently secure to prevent her from "commuting with her soul," contrasting the interior of the house with the "ulterior," and being quite laughable indeed. George Blackwood plays Bud nicely and the rest of the cast is eminently satisfactory...
...figure at the end of 1929. This was after adjustments for capital changes such as bond or stock retirements. During the same period the Standard Statistics stockmarket average, which includes 90 issues, showed a net decline of 36.9%. At first glance it would appear that investment trust managers did somewhat better than a blindfolded investor who picked his purchases by sticking a pin in the stock tables...
...their saddle more firmly on the Japanese war-horse and left the world shivering with a premonitory war chill. Now the shaven Russian growls deeply in his throat, and the chill becomes a shudder. Like angry school-boys one nation pushes the other, and the shove is returned with somewhat more fervour, until the battle, which in the end will leave them both prostrate, becomes wholly inevitable...
...good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
...knows what else Mr. Eden is up to? Who knows what meddlesome trouble Public Liability No. 1 is hatching in the seclusion of the Foreign Office? What may he not be saying to this Ambassador or that? What folly or danger is there into which the egocentricity of a somewhat superior person with no discretion and a sharp tongue cannot plunge us? "Can we afford dangerous Mr. Eden with the European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that we should have at the Foreign Office a Minister whose coolness and discretion-qualities which Mr. Eden...