Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had Il Duce entertained Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, in audience, at Rome last week, than His Lordship rushed to cable the Daily Mail, over his personal signature, and with an abrupt, excited opening paragraph, as follows...
...Schaefer is the only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...
...inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling mildly with surprise...
...dish of strawberries was the reputed agency which brought to an abrupt close, last week, the 45th session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva (TIME, June...
...Yale into the A. E. F., out of the A. E. F. into steel mills and a brass factory, out of the fires to the Atlantic Monthly staff is the abrupt sequence of Author Walker's career. He wrote reminiscences under the title Steel. Then he became literary editor of the Independent and wrote this, his first novel...