Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumpled as any returning tourist, tactless Harry Vaughan stepped off a banana boat in New York last week after a vacation in Guatemala, and promptly put his foot in his mouth. The day was hot and so was he, but a reporter managed to tag him for a brief interview. The reporter wanted to know about his connections with James V. Hunt, the Washington "five percenter," who had said Vaughan was a close friend (TIME, July...
Ears & Tails. Of all the animals born at La Punta, about half are males. Only one-fourth turn out to be fighters, and only 5% prove exceptional in their one brief appearance in a ring (where bulls are either killed in fighting, slaughtered for cowardice, or-very rarely-pardoned for1 extreme bravery and sent back to live out their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble...
This time, wearing, as usual, an outrageous little hat, she made it brief-just a few apologies (for a gate that was not open, for the amplifiers and the unfinished stage), and a few promises, most of which by week's end had been kept. To some, Minnie's speech was the biggest letdown of the evening. Complained the astonished Daily News: "She made sense...
...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
Died. Russell Doubleday, 77, author (A Gunner Aboard the Yankee, 1898; Tree Neighbors, 1940), editor (World's Work) and publisher (vice president, Doubleday & Co.); after brief illness; in Glen Cove...