Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were lucky. Last week Mr. & Mrs. Sybrand van der Dussen arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand...
...manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...
...aluminum figures were somewhat abstracted, but they were also undeniably naked (see cut). Entitled The Lovers, they had won a prize for a pretty, brunette-banged sculptor named Mitzi Solomon (who manfully objects to being called a "sculptress...
...Homestretch (20th Century-Fox) canters in Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...
...Crimson eked out a win in the first race by a 24 to 20 score, and then went on to clinch the meet with a somewhat more substantial 26 to 18 victory in the second contest...