Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlington, Vt., in 1821. Her early life was spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given to his congregation. Her unselfish neighborliness was attested by many friends...
Thomas R. Marshall of North Manchester, Ind., who 20 years ago was not only Vice President of the U. S. but also the Will Rogers of the era, was the author of a brief tale: "Once upon a time there were two brothers. One went to sea. The other was elected Vice President. Neither was ever heard from again." Tom Marshall did not live to hear about a Vice President who went to sea and was next heard from when he landed with the Marines to take the situation well in hand...
...under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50? to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a valuable department called Caution. Samples...
...STORY OF DICTATORSHIP-E. E. Kellett-Dutton ($1.75)-Brief, heated survey of the world's No. 1 tyrants since Biblical times, who serve the English author's thesis that "Indifferentists," not Tories or Reds, are the ones to blame...
...influenced by the declines in the security markets. . . . The month of June completed a very satisfactory half-year in business, during which industrial production, employment and payrolls, the volume of trade, and business earnings were all higher than in any like period since the beginning of the depression. [In brief, farmers and other producers of raw materials have been getting good prices for their production, labor has had more work at high wages. Manufacturers of goods of everyday use have enjoyed a phenomenal activity, exceeding the 1929 peak...