Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was put forward by McNaught Syndicate as successor to its late great Will Rogers. Appearing in some 100 newspapers, Alice Longworth's brief daily comment is served hot by telegraph to most subscribers. First sample...
...going to do with the money? Well, with five children to educate that is easy to answer. I'm going to spend it for that. No, I'm not going to buy a car." After gathering in her check and her roses she planned to pay a brief visit to Maine relatives, then head for home...
Helen Hayes' father was a man named Brown who did a number of things, none of them very profitably. For a brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later...
...Filbert's successor is Edward Riley Stettinius Jr., who is handsome, likable, supercharged with energy and white-haired at 35. His services were acquired by Steel Corp. last year after a meteoric rise to a General Motors vice-presidency and a brief but intense interlude in NRA. Son of the late Morgan Partner who directed Allied purchasing in the U. S. during the War, he is an executive by inheritance as well as by choice. Long on organization, strong on public relations, he has attended so many conferences and meetings that he habitually says "Gentlemen" even when talking...
...office, tell not only the day but the hour that he wishes to tour the collection. Once admitted, he must follow a special strip of green carpet from room to room, never loitering, never turning back, never sitting down. At the end of an hour he will have had brief glimpses of $50,000,000 worth of pictures and will be ejected through the same oak door through which he entered...