Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without catering to the jitterbug trade, The Castles modernizes somewhat the mood of daring pre-War dances which would seem shockingly sedate to modern audiences. It does so, however, without demolishing their charm and elegance. The songs that tinkle across the sound track-In My Merry Oldsmobile, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Oh, You Beautiful Doll and a dozen others-are calculated to evoke an era when alligators lived only in swamps, or zoos. And they succeed so completely that when Vernon Castle's plane crashes at Fort Worth, even...
...Federal salary of an attorney for HOLC (TIME, Nov. 28). Utah's Attorney General tried to collect on the salary of an RFC attorney. In each case, the State's high court ruled against its Attorney General. No one was surprised, for 120 years ago, in a somewhat similar case, McCulloch v. Maryland, U. S. Chief Justice Marshall ruled against Maryland saying: "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." This week the U. S. Supreme Court overruled both State courts, upheld both States' Attorneys General...
...concessions demanded by Italy-such as a free port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom they would have to fight was a big mystery...
...much debating. Why the Dictator took all this trouble to organize a legislative body which will probably be just as much a rubber stamp as the Deputies were will probably remain a dark Fascist mystery. Perhaps Premier Mussolini was thinking of a successor who might be somewhat less a Dictator than...
...music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...