Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventh Symphony, most pretentious of the three, used Beethoven's great opus as an accompaniment for somewhat irrelevant but agreeably spectacular choreographic capers...
...Although the Society is somewhat embarrassed at Mr. Toomey's ill-advised choice of examples," the bulletin admits, "prompted no doubt by what has been maliciously branded as his desire for personal publicity, it nevertheless feels that if he will but be patient, we can supply him with any needed arguments...
...Anatole Litvak's direction and the acting of Flynn and Miss Davis are eminently successful. A trifle pretentious in its narrative manner, The Sisters has the salient virtue of making it clear that in 1908 that sleepy year seemed just as fateful as 1938 does now, and for somewhat similar reasons. Good shot: The Medlins' San Francisco neighbor squealing the earthquake war cry: "It's the end of the world...
Observant members of Pierson College have noticed with somewhat a sense of relief the removal of a Harvard seal which withstood the hostile gaze of faithful Elis for many a lonely month...
Between Columnists James Westbrook Pegler and Heywood Campbell Broun there had long existed a somewhat strained out-of-print friendship. In print, "Old Peg," ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything...