Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Informed by a Saturday Evening Post article that London tap water tastes like soap, but that King George & Queen Elizabeth like it anyway, Philadelphia Chemist LeRoy Drew Betz procured a sample from his London agents. Chemist Betz then duplicated its color, hardness, chemical content, using as a base distilled water from the Schuylkill, sent 25 gallons to the White House ("purely as a gesture of patriotism and a possible means of increasing the comfort of the visiting monarchs...
...much even for Duke's reverent students. When it was being built, they mocked its "vulgarity," stood a fraternity initiate on the empty pedestal for a whole day with a cigar in his hand. Duke's President William Preston Few had the statue put up anyway, proclaimed himself proud to "do honor to [Buck's] good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
...series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...expected TIME to be sophisticated enough to have looked into the following points: i) Why does the New Masses charge merely that Krivitsky-Ginsberg can't shoot a rifle and has never seen Stalin (two charges that by their nature can't be proved or disproved and anyway don't mean anything) while avoiding any attack on his main claim, which is that he was for some years chief of the Russian Military Intelligence Service for Western Europe...
...cold feet about Pat Reed's story, showed it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was "requested" not to broadcast it. Mad as hops was Pat Reed, who had expected to turn an honest penny with his radio yarn. Said he: "NBC is controlled by the Government anyway...