Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
...Christopher Dowson were a part of the established pattern of English poetry-"not speech, but perfect song," said Dowson's late, great contemporary, William Butler Yeats. But about the poet himself the mists of time and faded memoirs had drawn close. Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life...
...address, though brief, was shrewdly aimed: Candidate Dewey was picking an inviting and wide-open target; he knew that it would take an extraordinary amount of New Deal ingenuity to devise an honest and sense-making defense of eleven years of tax boggling by the White House, the Treasury, and a Democratic Congress...
...Barmine termed this "completely false and preposterous." Less than a month ago, he said, he had been commended for his work. And last April, when he had tried to resign because of ill health, his resignation was turned down. He was given a pay raise along with permission for brief absences for treatment. Since then, OSS admitted, Barmine has not been absent oftener than any other employe. But OSS insisted that the decision to fire Barmine was made Sept. 21, "before anyone concerned . . . had any knowledge of the article which was published Sept. 27." In any case, it added, employes...
...opening session, Franklin Roosevelt made a brief appearance (shortly after the conferees had been told that Washington charwomen receive more pay than 44,000 U.S. teachers). The President spoke in support of NEA's drive for federal aid to education without federal interference. He also told a little story about a young Georgian who, in the early '20s, had asked him to do the diploma honors at a high-school graduation. "Are you the president of the class?" asked Mr. Roosevelt. "No," replied the youth, "I am the principal." The 19-year-old principal had had one year...