Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atone for his abrupt leavetaking, Toscanini issued one of his rare press statements, expressed gratitude and affection for his audiences and his orchestra. But he would permit no public demonstration when he sailed for home, probably never to return to the U. S. again. Aboard the S. S. Champlain he locked himself in his cabin with Mrs. Toscanini, admitted a few friends, barred all reporters, all photographers...
...President's merry dinner came to an equally abrupt end with a real news flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held...
...Manchukuo, which has thus far been recognized only by Japan and El Salvador, this abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff...
...dragged in by the ears"; incidents which do not develop logically out of each other. Such are the slaying of a College watchman by Oliver Alden's father when indulging in collegiate monkeyshines; (this one is the revival of an old Med Fac legend.) Mario van der Weyer's abrupt departure from Harvard when he is surprised with a woman in his room in Claverley, even Oliver's death after the Armistice in a motor accident when he is killed because somebody else was on the wrong side of the read...
...Abrupt and secretive, His Majesty at this juncture last week recalled the Great Khan to Iran, disclosing neither his reasons nor whether a new Iranian Minister will be sent to Washington. At the Iranian legation it was inferred that the King of Kings had been vexed by the attitude of Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the original "Elkton Outrage." Chatting with reporters, Mr. Hull said that the diplomatic immunity of Ambassadors and Ministers should not be considered by them license to violate, but instead reason for observing, laws with particular scrupulousness. This appeared to most Iranian aristocrats both unreasonable...