Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reception to the housing message was generally favorable. By week's end, committees in both Houses were busy holding hearings on bills embodying the Administration's plans. Reception to the slash in roads appropriations was exactly the reverse. Congress felt somewhat aggrieved in the first place at being left to wrestle with the nation's business while the President went off on a holiday. A request to cut in half an appropriation for such a valuable vote-getting purpose as highway construction looked like advance preparation for blaming Congress, if it failed to approve...
...such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies as Britain may be ready to go. These tactics by M. Léger quickly brought the negotiations to an amiable pause, with Mr. Chamberlain, who is somewhat pro-German, apparently feeling that the French had been "quite reasonable," should not be pressed...
...German-born Soprano Marita Farell chirped somewhat saggingly as the Voice of the Forest Bird...
...want anyone to think I have any illusions that Dark Dancers is great music. . . . It's just a pleasant score. . . ." Not every composer is able or willing to give such an accurate estimate of his abilities. Though grey-haired, exuberant Charles Wakefield Cadman has been lately somewhat neglected by sophisticated music lovers in favor of younger and more sensational composers, he remains one of the very few highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, received...
...such a circuitous manner the Vagabond mused as he entered Tamazunchale, unfortunately in no way similar to New York's 52nd Street night club of somewhat the same name. Tamazunchale, meaning in Huastecan no less than "Where the Governess Is," is notable for a large sign, on one side of the most dingy of thirty very dingy huts reading "Dentista" in large letters, but behind these huts grow tangled masses of orchids...