Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with his own linen sheets, punkah wavers, court chamberlains and sauce cooks...
...brief speeches the scientists promised not to repeat the "retreat from reason" that was forced upon them during Japan's militarist regime. They pledged themselves to work for world peace. Then they split into committees and got down to their main business of advising the government on Japan's scientific problems. Their charter makes them only an advisory group, but they feel that they have the prestige to give their advice authority. Besides, they have the conviction that they, the scientists of defeated Japan, are pioneering for the entire world...
...Stage (MARCH OF TIME) takes a brief look at both sides of the brassy street called Broadway-the mink-coated, white-tied and marquee-lighted side, and the darker lanes leading backstage to rehearsals where the work is done in drudgery, wild hope and exaggerated despair. Following the career of a young actress (Margaret Garland) who lands a minor role in the current hit Anne of the Thousand Days, this documentary shows Stars Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman going through rehearsals. It also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles...
Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim...
According to the Faculty of Medicine, whose vote determined the Medical School's policy, brief military service would not damage pre-medical students training severely...