Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of Terry Motors Inc., an East Weymouth Chevrolet agency. Terry, whose son graduates from the Boston Latin School tonight, confessed that he was "somewhat abashed" to see his picture in the Hub dailies...
...hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed together with what might have been, and what still may be realized in the future, than if viewed alone and judged by an inflexible standard...
...critics had to go on was a generalized but nonetheless official sketch and a somewhat glamorized interpretation of it by LIFE (see cut). But it was enough to raise the hackles of conservative architects. Said the president of Manhattan's Municipal Art Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office...
...intended to be exciting about this adaptation of Novelist Chandler's The High Window is the spectacle of a pretty girl learning, ever so shyly, how to enjoy being touched. Miss Guild has considerable prettiness and a kind of puppyish innocence in these scenes, but they are still somewhat embarrassing. Mr. Montgomery is a little too suave and petulant to be convincing as Marlowe. There are, however, some fair bursts of violence and some good sets...
...than that rank Miro among the top half-dozen living painters. The New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...