Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such is the method of attack, when dealing with a piece such as "The Madcap". The nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality across. She knows how to act, and particularly how to act funny...
...unwelcome pleasure, therefore, to see an amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...
...truly favorite son that he and his motorcade, preceded by militia and Boy Scouts, blared down the main street of Delaware, his home town. The entire populace had turned out, regardless of party. Other towns in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," had taught little Delaware how to act now that one of its own was recognizable as a candidate for the candidacy. Handsome, big-voiced Frank Willis was the man who placed President Harding in nomination...
...children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...
...industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again, "he is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption of authority...