Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles' reaction to its flood last week was naturally somewhat like that of a cinema producer whose top-price star creates public scandal: a desire to minimize it as far as possible. Fifth day of the storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California...
...Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...Critic Richard Lockridge of the right wing New York Sun praised Pins & Needles, though in somewhat gingerly fashion. *Quoted by special permission of copyright owners, Mills Music...
...first twelve years the Saturday Review of Literature, under Editor Henry Seidel Canby, got its reputation as a conservative, conscientious literary journal. Its sober book reviews were coupled somewhat incongruously with the playfully erudite, wambling columns of Christopher Morley, its mildly suggestive personal ads with a weekly puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks...
...referring to as "A Slight Case of Murder." I open up my peepers and wonder whether I will feel blow-hot-blow-cold about this one like I am about its co-feature which I have just waded through--an operatic affair dubbed "Romance in the Dark," which has somewhat to do with two Johns called Boles and Barrymore and a Gladys whose last handle is Swarthout. I make a note that I will give that one the bird in my review. Notwithstanding, almost at once comes along a beer baron who is none other than that grand little...