Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...
From Paris, last week, came reports of feverish activity around the Place Vendôme and, particularly, along that brief but important, severe but incredibly expensive street known as the Rue de la Paix. Crowds milled about sternly-guarded doorways; ultra-fashionable women sought admission as to the most coveted box at the Opera; Parisian celebrities entered with an air of triumph, emerged with subdued cries...
...believe that the span of human life is too brief a time in which to acquire the art of investing...
...Labor motion was defeated by an adverse vote of only 331. Explanation: Even Conservatives are becoming worried at Mr. Baldwin's failure to reduce the number of the unemployed, which now stands at 1,242,000, an increase in the last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either...
...Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots...