Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were a few of the admissions which Senator Black succeeded in extracting during the odd hours when Chairman O'Connor was not pre-empting the time of their joint witness, but well did Mr. Hopson know from those first brief experiences that he was in the hands of an expert inquisitor...
...smart, always worked hard at being smart, but until a few years ago was politically nobody. Born in Clay County. Ala., Hugo Black never finished secondary school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary...
Died, Sir William Watson, 77, "dean" of English poets, longtime "neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt...
...look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities Corp. ("The Whiskey Trust") put itself and its surplus stocks in his hands. Under President Kessler the "Whiskey Trust" had a brief period of profits before Prohibition reduced it to messing around with yeast, vinegar, denatured alcohol...
...some critics as a writer possessed of fine sentiments and a talent for description rather than of a strong imagination and a firm grasp of character. Her farmers and their boys and girls, tense, neurotic, esthetically inclined individuals whose emotional boiling points were low, were constantly being shaken by brief but elemental passions which were all out of proportion to any apparent cause. In moments of peace and release they seemed to wander over the farmlands in a daze of sensuous awareness, savoring barnyard scenes and country beauties like city people spending their first vacation out of town...