Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the splendor of London's party and the simplicity planned for Denmark's -a brief family procession through the city to a thanksgiving service; in the evening a small State banquet with toasts by the Kings of Sweden and Norway, a few foreign diplomats and Cabinet ministers, later a review of the students' torchlight procession-lay a contrast perfectly illustrative of the difference between a mighty empire, with world problems of gorgeous complexity, and a tight little kingdom with 25 years of peace behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week...
...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
...third-floor office in the gloomy old Federal Building in Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor...
...sale is had pursuant to the decrees entered, and decrees provided that at any time the sale can be adjourned by public oral announcement to rooms in the division superintendent's office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described...
...next few years Hart Crane got his education: a queer mixture of little magazines, Greenwich Village society and odd jobs. He worked brief spells in a munitions factory, a shipyard, a newspaper office. When he was jobless or in financial straits, which was most of the time, friends lent him money and put him up. A prickly guest, he was always quick to take offense...