Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father sees him go off to war, waving good-by for the last time. At this point, where memory and the boy's life fade away together, the father's life must go on alone. Grandfather explains to the brokenhearted father that the boy's brief, easygoing, generous, small-town life was worth dying for because it was worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store. A shy young sailor (Henry Morgan) turns up. He is the dead boy's closest comrade. Together the boy's father...
Died. Dr. Frank Eugene Lutz, 64, since 1921 the American Museum of Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...
Died. Brigadier General Sir William Horwood, 75, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (1920-28). World War I Provost Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force in France; after a brief illness; in West Mersea, England. Grey-mustached Sir William's principles were as high as his bowler, his methods sometimes as narrow as his collar. He did not like the idea of female bobbies. In 1922 he cunningly waved away poisoned éclairs sent to him by mail, soon afterwards mistook some arsenious chocolate creams for an expected gift. He recovered-and succeeded in tracking down the insane sender...
...After a brief, angry look at what had been going on in WPB while he was away, Don Nelson sat down and wrote out his resignation. Then, in a well-harnessed huff, he hurried off to the White House to ask Franklin Roosevelt some pointed questions...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles and upon his own confession [he] has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for violation of the Christian law of chastity." Lyman was the twelfth Apostle to be excommunicated since the sect was founded. He was the son of an Apostle, the grandson...