Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close of the brief concert, the University singers were presented to the visitors, who extended an invitation to tea to the 55 members of the Glee Club who will include Ottawa, Ontario, in the Christmas trip...
Later he retired to devote his time to writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...
...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...
...final goal on his trip in Europe, spoke briefly in his last letter to Professor Elliott of the various points that he had visited, and some of the incidents that befell him on the way. Arriving at Port Said, Professor Holcombe says that there he had made a brief survey of the government, and then proceeded on to Geneva, where he attended the meetings of the league of nations. He expects to make a report later of his observations there. From Geneva, Professor Holcombe said, that he journeyed down through the Balkans to Belgrade...
...Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary critic of great...