Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...viable hen's egg may be hatched in three weeks, but three months are if anything a bit brief to hatch a complicated international treaty. Nonetheless, in October liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King, campaigning before the Canadian general election, promised if he became Prime Minister to negotiate a trade treaty* with the U. S. within 90 days. Only fortnight ago Prime Minister King went to Washington to see Franklin Roosevelt and in the heat of their mutually impetuous goodwill the treaty was incubated. Last week, only seven days after Mr. King had first nested in a White House...
...children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
When the House Masters permitted Freshman to cat in the Houses for a brief period before filling their applications last year, they instituted an experiment which should be extended. Development of this policy will not only give a man greater leisure in which to judge the merits of his future place of residence but will also enable him to associate with upper-class friends and thereby feel closer akin to the College...
...adventurer, roving editor of an outdoor-sports magazine, now traveling in the Near East. Although his novels are popular in Holland, they have not won the endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting...
...York Evening Mail, World and Herald Tribune, it contains only such incidents and opinions as are commonly expressed in public, possesses a modest historical importance for its reflection of current reactions to forgotten hits of the theatre, forgotten bestsellers among the novels, forgotten celebrities and scandals. Although brief readings of it give the impression that the author has richly enjoyed his tennis, his wide and indiscriminate reading, his association with the tight little group of egocentric characters who think they do New York's journalistic thinking, a more attentive study reveals such a monotony and superficiality of life...