Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddly enough this cinematic newspaper, the Globe retains a slight air of dignity absent from its recent predecessors. Even the somewhat hardened sports writers fail to strip to their undershirts and toss off innumerable hookers of whiskey as the pressure of the deadline approaches. Perhaps that is because Miss Hudson is present...
...assistance in the race-Mr. Harold H. Madill whom the Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...
...called "oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization discharged them, although somewhat imperfect, nonetheless whole...
...Somewhat disillusioned now by his erst while Negrophile friends and acquaintances, Claude McKay looks forward to a "great modern Negro leader" who can think up a better solution to the Negro problem than taking them back to Africa...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...