Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously, your commentator neglected to read our capsule review in the Religious Book Club Bulletin, which provided a brief outline of the book and its contents, stating its objectionable features and plainly referring to it as "shockingly sacrilegious...
Monday's gathering, said Fisher, will attempt to explore the possibilities of cooperative action in international affairs. The Council committee will present a brief report on their activities in field, and on their plans for the December conference...
Since then (except for a brief dip in the spring of 1938) LIFE had grown steadfastly. It grew even though it ignored the kind of talking down that mass-circulation merchants like Beaverbrook and Hearst thought was good for their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages...
...Fire Island, the lads at once smelt a rat. "If it makes you happier, mother, it is all right with me," said Clifton (14). "I don't know about that. . . ." muttered Allen (12). But soon afterwards, the future Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army received a brief, secret note from Allen: "I hope you will come to Fire Island. Don't be nervous, it is O.K. with me. (Signed) A friend in need is a friend indeed. ..." A few months later, Lieut. Colonel George Catlett Marshall became Allen's stepfather...
...Brief Encounter. At the Tremont. A fine motion picture, made by Noel Coward from his own one-act play, "Still Life." It deals with the love tragedy of two middle-class English citizens who meet in a railroad station and develop their "star-cross'd" relationship from there. Coward employs the technique of the dream, combined with fine photography, to achieve remarkable success...