Word: briefness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shortly after noon, the President put on his morning clothes, went to the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church to attend the funeral of Maurice C. Latta, executive clerk at the White House since the McKinley Administration. The President was fond of Maurice Latta, a dour but efficient man. As the brief service ended, Harry Truman brushed a tear from...
...though history's heart had skipped a beat. For a brief, illusory moment, other struggles between Communism and the West seemed suspended-as if the contestants paused to watch the outcome of the stirring battle being fought in Italy. At dawn this Sunday, Italians will go to the polls to choose, in a democratic election, between Communism and the West...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, the case was a dastardly attack on the freedom of the press. Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested that the motive was simply robbery (the thugs took...
From 1892 to 1904 Chekhov, then at the height of his fame, kept a set of unpretentious workbooks. In them he jotted judgments brief and sufficient as a child's ("He who tells lies is dirty"). He sketched ideas for Stories, many of which he never wrote. Readers can wonder for themselves what Chekhov might have done with this synopsis: "A radical lady, who crosses herself at night, is secretly full of prejudice and superstition, hears that in order to be happy one should boil a black cat by night. She steals a cat and tries to boil...
Rain forced down attendance and kept four items off the agenda of a meeting of the Joint Student Association last night. Only three University departments and Radcliffe, out of eleven invited to attend, were represented at the brief meeting...