Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under a totalitarian State, even if the form of democracy were retained, it would be impossible to prevent politics from creeping into the planning--this would either eventuate, or a bureaucracy must be created, so powerful as to entail the abandonment of "all of our cherished lib- selections, a brief violin recital by Malcolm H. Holmes, a quartet singing popular undergraduate music, an exhibition of monocycle riding, and winding up by more selections by the Glee Club with the whole crowd finally joining the Club in singing football songs...
Belles-lettres are practically overwhelmed in this avalanche of social neuroses. Mr. Ames' "Two Beers" is a brief and vivid picture of an episode in contemporary life that chimes in with the bleak tone of the other writers. Mr. Strauss' "Third Class" is an able story in which, as the title indicates, the consciousness of social maladjustment figures, perhaps in this case too much dragged in by the horns. This story would, I think, be an altogether admirable job if Mr. Strauss had not at one point joined a long line of authors whose seriously intended effects have been rudely...
...Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family...
...stockholders last week that March quarter business was the best for that period since 1930. President Cornish declared that he could easily raise prices but that he preferred not to "squeeze" consumers. Profits from European operations were currently better than from those in the U. S. C. In a brief preliminary report, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that March quarter profits amounted to about 85? per share of common stock as against 90? in the same period of last year...
...next venture was establishing a summer school and art colony at Stone City in an impressively colonnaded mansion, relic of the days when Stone City's abandoned limestone quarries brought the town brief prosperity. Stone City's art school quickly became known as the Ice-Wagon Art Colony. So many pupils enrolled for the course that every bedroom in the village was taken. Inventive pupils found a stable of 14 abandoned ice wagons, dragged them to a meadow, fitted them up as gypsy caravans, painted the sides with gaudy murals. From miles around the farmers went to gape...