Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to affect little schoolboys, think what a reading of Esquire must do to a sensitive girl. She starts off by finding a young man on page 13, pictured in four colors and little else; the else however gives him "cool comfort and body ease" while being "so brief he doesn't know he's wearing them." A few pages further on she is thrilled by "the greatest thing they ever did to pants" (this is an old favorite), both these before she even approaches the reading matter...
...paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left it to Lincoln.-If I cannot, in the brief time given me to attack its deep and disturbing problems, solve those problems, I hope at least to have moved them well on the way to solution by my successor. It is absolutely essential that the solving process begin at once...
...contention was entirely missing from the President's brief as put to Mr. Krock, his original and now badly mangled argument that more and younger judges were needed on the Supreme Court in order to help the Court keep abreast of its work. Of that, apparently, no more will be heard...
...considering it a "masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus assured of a brief twilight in the public eye, the onetime oldsters' Messiah complacently observed: "This publicity will accelerate my Movement...
...Every car entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...