Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lots of baseball fans, loyal rooters for the home team though they are, leave the game after the eighth inning to avoid the crush after the ninth. Last week that kind of discretion may have motivated the resignation of one of Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful and useful sub-Cabinet henchmen: chunky, chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially...
...matters to an audience. By the time John Mason, having reached his office, tiptoes in to ask his boss for two weeks off in which to take a honeymoon, the question of whether he will get it or not will matter, to the average cinemaddict, almost as much as though the honeymoon were...
...subdued his mane-shaking mannerisms but had somewhat slowed his brilliant technique. He still flailed the keyboard like a maddened thresher, still followed through a rippling run as though he were plucking a rabbit from a topper. But his stubby fingers, which he always soaked in warm water before a performance, though still steely-supple, had just perceptibly lost something of their cascading fluidity. Critics no longer unconditionally rated him as No. 1 among the world's great pianists. But he still had what it took to hold an audience: a great past, a great presence...
...droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...
Swift developments in this key country of southeast Europe, where conditions have been turbulent for a month, were expected to have an important, though as yet uncertain, bearing on the struggle for dominance of Europe between the totalitarian and democratic blocs...