Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinctly discouraging last week when the House Appropriations Committee reported to the floor a $543,341,506 Army supply bill, largest in peacetime history, which failed to include $29,000,000 which President Roosevelt had asked for the canal and four other non-military enterprises. The committee explained somewhat lamely that its omission of this item was not to be construed as an outright abandonment of the projects concerned, that the money might be included in a Deficiency Bill "before adjournment." Senator Fletcher, now a defender of the canal whether he likes it or not, roared that the committee...
When it comes to religion Joseph Stalin is somewhat wistful. Although never actually ordained a priest, he was a theological student in his youth. He is the only Dictator alive today with a thorough knowledge of the contents of the Bible. Instead of being cremated, as tradition decrees for Communists, the Dictator's beloved second wife lies buried by his order in the consecrated ground of a historic Moscow convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932). Although active profession of atheism is the badge of a Communist, Joseph...
...There Wise Fools" is not a new play--it was presented in Boston and elsewhere a respectable number of years ago--but it still has a gentle comedy and a steady if somewhat pedestrian flow. It tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets...
...will soon dribble off and be relegated to some mental attic along with other musty educational relics of bygone days. An interesting new innovation is the French and German F, described in the report as an "introduction with slides and phonograph records to the respective countries". At first smacking somewhat of the Travelogue, these two newcomers give promise of being among the most entertaining and colorful of the courses to be given...
...things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome, vibrant picture, and a new experience for anybody...