Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native New Yorker who feels that way about it is TIME'S Terry Drucker, who researched the story. Her faith was somewhat shaken, however, by paragraphs like the following one, in which the writer left the facts for her to fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...
...Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble looking old enough to be the beauteous Majesty of Denmark. But her performance...
...world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went out another door. Howard Brinton did not glance up or stop talking...
...found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have seemed somewhat prosy to a man whose fierce fervor of inward prayer is reported to have shaken the walls of the silent 17th Century meetings...
...Johnson is "Uncle Bumps," a writer of stories for children who loathes the little pests as wholeheartedly as he likes .liquor and girls. June Allyson, a somewhat prim (but non-bespectacled) Vermont schoolteacher, wins a contest to illustrate his forthcoming book, The Bashful Bull. When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins...