Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions to the Cambridge policemen were brief and to the point. While the squad cars stood in front of the Lampoon building the short wave radio mumbled in curt and ferocious tones from the Central Square Bastille, "If they act up, kick THEM in the pants! That...
...This in brief is the story, which must be seen to be appreciated. Sophie Tucker is cast as Mr. Moore's wife and the lyrics of her numbers, reminiscent of her past, caused Beacon Hill residents a little alarm. Songs in the serious, philosophic, or romantic vein are carried off by Tamara and Mary Martin, with a little assistance from Mr. Gaxton. "Get Out of Town" and "From Now On" will be heard a lot this winter, and others according to the public's whim...
...103rd annual meeting last week, business was brief and routine. Income for 1938 was $30,000-the annual rental received from New York Central. Taxes, expenses and officers' salaries ate up $6,000. The directors voted to pay out the remainder. Thus, to each of 125 stockholders who own the road's 6,000 shares (par: $50) went an 8% dividend, about the amount they always have received and will receive as long as the Central pays its rent...
Chairman of the new firm is Tri-Continental's longtime head, handsome, suave, bright-eyed Earle Bailie. Born in Milwaukee, this 48-year-old banker began as a lawyer, in 1919 joined J. & W. Seligman & Co., became a partner in four year. He enjoyed a brief moment of national prominence in 1934 as right-hand man to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., was forced out by Senatorial objections to his Wall Street background...
...pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of the biggest literary bargains of the year. Best of the new tales. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, sums up Hemingway's fundamental credo as well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems ragged and confused. This Hemingway explains by saying that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds that it can be sharpened...