Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott Wheeler, daughter of one of the founders of the exclusive Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, asked seafaring Lowndes Johnson, another native blue blood, to design a small boat in which her young sons could learn the ABCs of sailing. A one-design boat, 16-ft. long and patterned somewhat after the bigger Stars (22 ft.) in which Designer Johnson had become famed as a skipper (1929 world's champion), the Comet was adopted by the U. S. yachting family in 1934 when Philadelphia Pathologist John Eiman organized the boats into a racing class...
...pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses) which was Rimbaud's purpose in debauchery...
...isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were the case [she] might perhaps be somewhat less hysterical in her public utterances...
...lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical gentlemen who tell us that our country has neither the background nor the aptitude that makes for success in maritime affairs, I have little sympathy. . . . The United States of America has a maritime tradition...
Other novels, with somewhat similar background, have been written by Russian exiles. Not one has become popular. (All the business went to such characteristic Soviet sagas as Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Gorky's Bystander...