Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd around the tables in Sever and Harvard Halls was so thick that no one without plenty of time on his hands could attack it, with any hope of both voting and attending his class. It would not have been hard to have more watchers during the few brief periods when voting was heavy, and in general to provide facilities that would be adequate for the numbers using them. John C. Gray...
Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...
...clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window after a brief soliloquy...
...Duke's impeded speech was brought painfully to public attention at the Wembley Exposition of 1925. Standing before a battery of amplifiers, H. R. H., as President of the Exposition, commenced a brief address, consisting almost entirely of syllables. The current had not been turned on, the Duke's voice could not be heard more than a few feet away. He turned to the exposition chairman seated beside him, just as electricians turned on the loud speakers full force. Instantly a Gargantuan voice boomed through the Stadium: "THE D-D-D-DAMN THINGS...
Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...