Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Around a Pool," by Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry...
...Yardlings, with Johnnie Witherspoon, former Harvard and All-American star as coach, have been working outdoors since vacation and are slowly getting organized. The Freshman defense held quite consistently during the match, but the attack was somewhat wavering and ill-tinied. Witherspoon's men face one of the hardest schedules in recent years and are bonding every effort to whip into shape as soon as possible...
...performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize broad social facts reminds one somewhat of "The Shining Hour." At times the dialogue lags and verges on the trite, but the general importance of the main theme successfully carries the moviegoer over the rough spots...
...Europe. Founded in 1887 by the late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat quaint idea that people who spoke both French and English liked to read their news the same...
Reflecting technical factors, President Roosevelt's peace proposal and somewhat better business news, stock prices rallied to gains ranging to 11 points. The recovery reached its peak Saturday with one of the broadest advances in six months...