Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will lecture on "Anglo-American Relations, 1853-60." Anglo-American relations, whether they be studied in the popular form of the Page letters or from history textbooks, are interesting for the way they are woven and entwined into the history of the world. Even the study of the comparatively brief span between 1853 and 1860 should prove worthwhile...
Stocks. When Secretary Mellon speaks optimistically of U. S. business and credit conditions, as he did last week upon sailing for a brief vacation in Europe, buyers of stock exchange securities become optimistic. Their enthusiasm last week pushed the price of U. S. Steel common stock to 165%, General Motors to 182 ⅜, Du Pont to 216 ⅞ Delaware & Hudson to 195 ½. These were record quotations for these important securities...
Tessa fell in love at her one brief glimpse of the sleek visitor. During the two nights and a day that he was closeted with Rennie, Tessa the Seductive, the Disdainful, was even reduced to writing him poetry and in her abandon asked Toes, who rolled with mirth, what rhymed with "spaniel." That was why Kim sarcastically called him the Dark Gentleman of the Sonnets and part of the reason that Boris nearly ripped out his silky black throat; would have, too, but for the Savory Legs (Italian gardener). The Dark Gentleman flaunted his scars to the French poodle next...
...American literature, as the former of the modern short story, and as the first father of that modern second cousin of legitimate fiction, the detective story, is of superlative importance as a literary figure, besides having lived a life that burned itself out with its own intensity in a brief span of years...
...Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time...