Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributions must be of the following types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...
...incident might have been confined to a few babbling Italian quarters, but for the alertness of liberty-loving Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays and other advocates of the Sacco-Vanzetti brief in Massachusetts' recent spectacle...
...head of one Fannie Broyles. Fannie Broyles fell down and lay very still. Her relatives found her, took her home, enclosed her body in a casket, took the casket to church, stood near it, sang funeral hymns. Before these had been finished, Fannie Broyles opened her eyes for one brief second. Soon she opened them again, waggled her hand and got out of her coffin. Afraid of being buried while alive, she had completely recovered from the blow that had stunned...
...West. In Europe she attained a high degree of notoriety by refusing to become the mistress of famed Gabriel d'Annunzio; but despite her dislike, frequently made manifest, for the convention of marriage, she permitted herself to be wedded by noted Russian Poet Sergei Yessenin. Their marriage was as brief as a liaison...
...incident might have been confined to a few babbling Italian quarters, but for the alertness of liberty-loving Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays and other advocates of the Sacco-Vanzetti brief in Massachusetts' recent spectacle...