Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whoever He May Be." The candidate's smile was brief. Huddled with the newsmen in the bedroom, he asked them again & again: "What does it mean?" Was the nation more isolationist than he had thought? Had the Wisconsin voters repudiated his principles? Or him personally? He decided it was partly both. But he had no regrets. "I'm glad I made the fight," he said. "I'd do the same thing if I had it to do over again." At midnight he went...
Died. John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, 55, eloquently lecturing Yale historian (Thiers and the French Monarchy), Princetonian ('10); after a brief illness; in New Haven...
...Many Democratic hacks are still on his payroll, and his own appointments have not been outstanding. Removals have usually been accomplished, not by sensational charges, but by a simple resignation, asked for and received. Reporters, journeying out to his farm for an explanation, have returned with a brief statement ("the case is closed") from the Governor, and a couple of dozen eggs from his wife...
...censors would not like a brief and effective message such as 'Nova explosion Puppis shoot nightly using whole battery' followed by positional numbers and the word 'urgent.' That sounds subversive. The equivalent 'Make systematic observations of bright new star in constellation Puppis near star Zeta using all telescopes' is satisfactory and expensive...
...strength of Hervey Allen's fiction is in its pageantry, the broad sweep of forest, river and mountains, with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...