Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition he has been acting as head of the Aviation Division of the International Brigade in support of the Loyalists. With Fischer, correspondent of the "Nation" in Madrid, Malraux comes here at the beginning of a brief tour of America...
...most substantial articles display a critical conservatism. Mr. Goodhue opposes the addition of justices to the Supreme Court in an intelligent essay which loses a little of its effectiveness because the author tries to be fair and complete and view the problem from more aspects than his brief compass permits. In "Hutchins and Harvard," Mr. Geismer makes an excellently loyal and well-reasoned reply to criticism by the President of the University of Chicago. Two lighter pieces fulfill their intentions pleasantly, Mr. Thompson's rather condescending account of the life and history of the Cowley Fathers, and Mr. Straus...
...stories are unpretentious and valid records of available experience. Mr. Gibson "Death in the House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...
...Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
Charles M. Storey, Jr. '37, Chairman of this year's Conference opened the noon meeting with a brief address welcoming the delegates and guests to the Conference and thanking them for their cooperation in making the meeting possible...