Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 16 issue of your most excellent weekly newsmagazine, there was published a brief sketch and comment relative to my tour around America, and I write just to say to you that your article was brought to my attention more times than any other publication that carried descriptions of my tour...
...took Jimmy Walker, natty as ever in a pinstriped, pinchback suit, out of the clutches of a customs officer, led him to a microphone to be interviewed for the radio. Since resigning his office and leaving the country, Jimmy Walker had returned once before for a brief period when, as a result of crossed political signals, he thought he might run for Mayor in place of bumbling John Patrick O'Brien (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). This time what his welcomers lacked in public prestige they made up for in warmth of spirit, and their greeting went straight to sentimental...
...days later Freethinker Lewis was again in court, this time to file a brief in an appeal from dismissal of a suit his organization had brought against Manhattan's rich old Trinity Church. Mr. Lewis charged that St. Paul's Chapel, a satellite of Trinity was selling 10? postcards bearing what purported to be a prayer written by George Washington. The prayer, declared the Enemy of God, is "phony." It is a revision of a letter Washington wrote to the Governors of all the States upon disbanding the Army in 1783. Freethinkers' Trinity Church according...
Said the Freethinkers' appeal brief last week: "Of course, not one buyer in thousands would or could have a suspicion that his card was not 'kosher.' . . . Trinity knows that Washington was rather notoriously not a Christian, was not a member of its chapel which he attended officially while President in New York, never knelt in prayer, and always walked out on its holy communion service...
...vitch is the daughter of a wealty Russian art collectorwho settled in Paris nea the end of the 19th Century. Time Past begins with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant, but her friendship with...