Word: afterwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From what newsmen could pick up afterward, Jimmy Byrnes saw no danger of an immediate war with Russia. But he was afraid Russia's policies might touch off an "incident" that would get out of hand, or might create such animosities that war would eventually be inevitable. He had tried to persuade the Russians that they needed friendly peoples-rather than friendly governments-in their neighbor countries...
...Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca, onetime star of the Met's "Golden Age." It was his first Manhattan recital in 29 years. Said De Luca afterward: "Even before I began to sing they make a big ovation. They don't even know can I still sing. They are saying 'how do you do my dear friend...
...Mukden, they talked to one Soong Chu-sheng, tobacco factory manager. He told them how the Russians had looted last fall, had methodically stripped factories, had taken two-thirds of his cigaret output without pay. Shortly afterward, the talkative Soong was shot by a gunman. Several of the correspondents accused themselves in print of being "unwitting motivators" of his murder...
McNear, who has been bitterly fighting the unions almost continuously since he bought the line in 1926, was at lunch in Peoria's Creve Coeur Club when the shooting broke out. Afterward he insisted that the strikers had fired first; the guards in self-defense. Next day he took...
...took it mighty hard when Lou Gehrig's diamond career was ended by rare, fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman. Bradman sadly put away his bats, fought to shake off his affliction, slowly succeeded. Last week, at 37, he again stepped to the wicket, captaining South Australia v. Queensland, batted placements between fieldsmen with oldtime perfection...