Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week foreign correspondents in London, Moscow and Paris reported that the Anglo-Soviet pact was just about ready for signing. Late last week Prime Minister Chamberlain discussed it fully in a foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons. These sensational developments, however, were made somewhat less exciting by the fact that the pact had been reported ready for signing at least a dozen times before. Indeed, to detached observers the proceedings appeared less like diplomatic negotiations than like the scene in Hellzapoppin, in which a young man promises to escape from a strait jacket in five seconds...
Author Isherwood wrote most of the book: Auden's contribution is a sequence of 27 sonnets and a commentary in which left politics and a sense of personal disorder mingle in some coolly fluent, somewhat vague verses about war in China, sometimes rhymed...
...bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional voice Sir John admitted that his estimates for the defense budget last April had been wrong. Defense would not cost $3,140,000,000. The bill would run somewhat above $3,650,000,000-a little matter of $510,000,000 more than had been calculated. Since last year's defense budget was $2,000,000,000, this represented an increase...
...secret has it been that the gaunt, pale-faced Edda is hopeful that her somewhat mediocre young husband may some day become Il Duce II. A possible obstacle is Prince Umberto, who is accepted, rightly or wrongly, as the spearhead of opposition to Axis policies which Count and Countess Ciano champion...
Prince Paul only a few weeks previously had undergone even more lavish Berlin treatment and had acted somewhat pained by it. Although known personally to prefer London's and Paris' ways to Berlin's, the Regent has nevertheless recognized that Yugoslavia is now soundly squeezed between Germany and Italy (in Albania) and that when Führer Hitler wants to entertain him he has to take...